Captain Cook Memorial Light
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse in Queensland, Australia
- Also known as: “Point Danger Light” and “Point Danger Lighthouse”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Duranbah Beach and Snapper Rocks.
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. Snapper Rocks is situated 320 metres north of Captain Cook Memorial Light.
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. Tweed Heads West is situated 5 km southwest of Captain Cook Memorial Light.
Captain Cook Memorial Light
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-28.165° or 28° 9′ 54″ southLongitude
153.55076° or 153° 33′ 3″ eastElevation
26 metres (85 feet)Open location code
5R3MRHP2+28OpenStreetMap ID
node 186196279OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouse
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to German—“Captain Cook Memorial Light” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Point Danger Light”
- German: “Point Danger Light”
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