Snapper Rocks
Snapper Rocks is in New South Wales, Australia. Snapper Rocks is situated nearby to Froggy Beach, as well as near the park Point Danger Lookout.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Snapper Rocks and Captain Cook Memorial Light.
Snapper Rocks
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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.
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. Captain Cook Memorial Light is situated 320 metres south of 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.
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 Snapper Rocks.
Snapper Rocks
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Category: tourism
- Location: New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-28.1623° or 28° 9′ 44″ southLongitude
153.54979° or 153° 32′ 59″ eastOpen location code
5R3MRGQX+3WOpenStreetMap ID
node 4846432721OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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