Point Danger
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.Photo: Ché Lydia Xyang, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Captain Cook Memorial Light and Duranbah Beach.
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.
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.
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 Coolangatta and Tweed Heads.
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.
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.
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 southwest of Point Danger.
Point Danger
- Type: Locality
- Description: point in Australia
- Category: point
- Location: City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-28.16449° or 28° 9′ 52″ southLongitude
153.55111° or 153° 33′ 4″ eastElevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
5R3MRHP2+6COpenStreetMap ID
node 4315300098OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Point Danger” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Point Danger”
- Dutch: “Point Danger”
- German: “Point Danger”
- Swedish: “Point Danger”
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