Captain Cook Memorial

Captain Cook Memorial is a building in City of Gold Coast, Queensland. Captain Cook Memorial is situated nearby to the art gallery DBar House, as well as near the locality Point Danger.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Captain Cook Memorial Light and Duranbah Beach.

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.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Point Danger and Coolangatta.

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.

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.

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.

Captain Cook Memorial

Type: Building
Location: City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-28.16501° or 28° 9′ 54″ south

Longitude

153.5508° or 153° 33′ 3″ east

Open location code

5R3MRHM2+X8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 103527832

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

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