Fingal Head

Fingal Head is a village on the Tasman Sea coast in the far northeast of New South Wales, Australia, about 5 km south of the New South Wales and Queensland border.

Type: Locality with 665 residents
Description: town in New South Wales, Australia
Also known as: “Fingal Head, New South Wales” and “Fingal Head, New South Wales, Australia”

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. Point Danger is situated 4½ km north of Fingal Head.

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. Coolangatta is situated 4½ km northwest of Fingal Head.

Fingal Head

Category: suburb
Location: Tweed Shire, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-28.203° or 28° 12′ 11″ south

Longitude

153.5668° or 153° 34′ 1″ east

Population

665

Elevation

7 metres (23 feet)

Open location code

5R3MQHW8+QP

OpenStreetMap ID

node 6043351108

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

GeoNames ID

8347885

Wikidata ID

Q5450182

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In Other Languages

From Basque to French—“Fingal Head” goes by many names.

Basque: “Fingal Head (Hegoaldeko Gales Berria)”
Basque: “Fingal Head”
French: “Fingal Head”

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Localities in the Area

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