Tweed
The Tweed River is a river situated in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia. From the middle reaches of its course, the state boundary between New South Wales and Queensland is located approximately 10 kilometres north.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Northern New South Wales, Australia
- Also known as: “Tweed River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Duranbah Beach and Captain Cook Memorial Light.
Duranbah Beach
Beach
Duranbah Beach, officially known as Flagstaff Beach, but also known as Dbah is the northernmost beach in New South Wales. Located in the Tweed Shire, Duranbah Beach is situated between the mouth of the Tweed River and the rocky headland Point Danger which also marks the Queensland-New South Wales border.
Captain Cook Memorial Light
Lighthouse
Point Danger Light, also known as the Captain Cook Memorial Light, is an active lighthouse located on Point Danger, a headland between Coolangatta and Tweed Heads, marking the border between Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. Captain Cook Memorial Light is situated 2½ km north of Tweed.
Snapper Rocks
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Snapper Rocks is a small rocky outcrop on the northern side of Point Danger at the southern end of Rainbow Bay on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It is a famous surf break and today the start of the large sand bank known to surfers as the Superbank. Snapper Rocks is situated 3 km north of Tweed.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tweed Heads and Point Danger.
Tweed Heads
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Tweed Heads and Coolangatta are twin towns on the border between north-eastern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland. Coolangatta is in Queensland and part of the Gold Coast City.
Point Danger
Locality
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Point Danger is a headland, located at Coolangatta on the southern end of the Gold Coast on the east coast of Australia. Separated by Snapper Rocks and Rainbow Bay to the west, with Duranbah Beach and the Tweed River mouth to the south, present-day Point Danger has also indicated the border between New South Wales and Queensland, Australia, since 1863. Point Danger is situated 2½ km north of Tweed.
Tweed Heads West
Suburb
Tweed Heads West is a suburb of Tweed Heads, located on the Tweed River in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in Tweed Shire along the Queensland and New South Wales border. Tweed Heads West is situated 5 km west of Tweed.
Tweed
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Tweed” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Tweed”
- Cebuano: “Tweed River”
- Chinese: “特威德河”
- Chinese: “翠兒河”
- Dutch: “Tweed River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر تويد”
- French: “Tweed River”
- German: “Tweed River”
- Irish: “Abhainn Tweed”
- Italian: “Tweed (Australia)”
- Italian: “Tweed”
- Japanese: “トゥイード・リヴァー”
- Japanese: “トウィード・リヴァー”
- Japanese: “トゥイード川”
- Japanese: “トウィード川”
- Japanese: “トゥウィード・リヴァー”
- Japanese: “トゥウィード川”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tweed”
- Norwegian: “Tweed”
- Slovenian: “reka Tweed”
- Slovenian: “Tweed River”
- Slovenian: “Tweed”
- Spanish: “Río Tweed (Nueva Gales del Sur)”
- Spanish: “Río Tweed”
- Swedish: “Tweed River”
- Welsh: “Afon Tweed”
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