Snapper Rocks
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.Photo: Sheba Also 43,000 photos, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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. 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 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.
Snapper Rocks
- Type: Rock
- Description: small rocky outcrop on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
- Categories: surf spot and landform
- Location: New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-28.16222° or 28° 9′ 44″ southLongitude
153.54991° or 153° 32′ 60″ eastOpen location code
5R3MRGQX+4XOpenStreetMap ID
way 995983549OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bare_rockWikidata ID
Q7547336
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In Other Languages
From Portuguese to Spanish—“Snapper Rocks” goes by many names.
- Portuguese: “Snapper Rocks”
- Spanish: “Snapper Rocks”
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