Rainbow Bay
Rainbow Bay is a bay, beach and locality at the southern end of Coolangatta within the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.Photo: Flyhighwithoutwings, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Captain Cook Memorial Light and Snapper Rocks.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Point Danger and Tweed Heads.
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.
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.
Rainbow Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Queensland, Australia
- Categories: bight and body of water
- Location: Queensland, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-28.16379° or 28° 9′ 50″ southLongitude
153.547° or 153° 32′ 49″ eastElevation
4 metres (13 feet)Open location code
5R3MRGPW+FROpenStreetMap ID
node 4315299451OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Rainbow Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Rainbow Bay (luuk sa Awstralya, State of Queensland)”
- Cebuano: “Rainbow Bay”
- Swedish: “Rainbow Bay (vik i Australien, Queensland)”
- Swedish: “Rainbow Bay”
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