Australia
Queensland
City of Gold Coast

Coolangatta

Coolangatta is a coastal suburb in the , , Australia. It is the Gold Coast's southernmost suburb and it borders . In the 2021 census, Coolangatta had a population of 6,491 people.
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  • Type: Suburb with 5,190 residents
  • Description: suburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
  • Also known as: “Coolangatta, Queensland” and “Coolangatta, Queensland, Australia”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Duranbah Beach and Captain Cook Memorial Light.

Beach
, officially known as Flagstaff Beach, but also known as Dbah is the northernmost beach in . Located in the , is situated between the mouth of the and the rocky headland which also marks the Queensland-New South Wales border.

Lighthouse
Point Danger Light, also known as the , is an active lighthouse located on , a headland between Coolangatta and , marking the border between and , .

Photo: Sheba Also 43,000 photos, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small rocky outcrop on the northern side of Point Danger at the southern end of on the , 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 Point Danger and Tweed Heads.

Locality
Photo: Ché Lydia Xyang, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a headland, located at Coolangatta on the southern end of the on the east coast of Australia. Separated by and to the west, with and the mouth to the south, present-day has also indicated the border between and , , since 1863.

Photo: Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
and Coolangatta are twin towns on the border between north-eastern and south-eastern . Coolangatta is in Queensland and part of the City.

Suburb
is a suburb of Tweed Heads, located on the in north-eastern , Australia, in along the and New South Wales border. is situated 4 km southwest of Coolangatta.

Coolangatta

Latitude
-28.16829° or 28° 10′ 6″ south
Longitude
153.53875° or 153° 32′ 20″ east
Population
5,190
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
Open location code
5R3MRGJQ+MG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21381163
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2170628
Wiki­data ID
Q4386146
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Satellite Map

Discover Coolangatta from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Coolangatta” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Coolangatta”
  • Chinese: “Coolangatta”
  • Dutch: “Coolangatta”
  • French: “Coolangatta”
  • German: “Coolangatta”
  • Irish: “Coolangatta”
  • Italian: “Coolangatta”
  • Japanese: “クーランガッタ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Coolangatta”
  • Norwegian: “Coolangatta”
  • Persian: “کولانگاتا”
  • Polish: “Coolangatta”
  • Russian: “Кулангатт”
  • Spanish: “Coolangatta (Queensland)”
  • Spanish: “Coolangatta”
  • Swedish: “Coolangatta”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Coolangatta”. Photo: Vality7, Public domain.