Sandy Island

Sandy Island is an island in New South Wales, Australia. Sandy Island is situated near the locality Point Danger, as well as near the suburb Coolangatta.

Places of Interest

Highlights: 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.

Snapper Rocks

Photo: Sheba Also 43,000 photos, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tweed Heads and Point Danger.

Tweed Heads

Photo: Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Photo: Ché Lydia Xyang, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

Coolangatta

Suburb

Photo: Vality7, Public domain.

Coolangatta is a coastal suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It is the Gold Coast's southernmost suburb and it borders New South Wales. In the 2021 census, Coolangatta had a population of 6,491 people.

Sandy Island

Type: Island
Description: island in New South Wales, Australia
Category: landform
Location: New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-28.1818° or 28° 10′ 55″ south

Longitude

153.55119° or 153° 33′ 4″ east

Elevation

1 metre (3 feet)

Open location code

5R3MRH92+7F

GeoNames ID

2150254

Wikidata ID

Q21902197

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Sandy Island” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Sandy Island”
Swedish: “Sandy Island”
Turkish: “Sandy Adası (XX)”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Fingal Point and Tweed Heads South.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Ebenezer Park and Boyds Point.

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