Gold Coast- Queensland

The Gold Coast is a beachfront city in southeastern Queensland on the east shoreline of Australia. The city is 94 kilometers (58 mi) south of the state capital Brisbane. It is the second most crowded city in the state, the sixth most crowded city in the nation, and the most crowded non-capital city in Australia. The Gold Coast has the biggest cross-state metropolitan range populace in Australia, because of the incorporation of Tweed Heads, New South Wales in its metropolitan region. The Gold Coast's metropolitan territory focalizes with that of Greater Brisbane, framing piece of a urban conurbation of in excess of 3 million people. 

While the inception of the city's name is begging to be proven wrong, the name "Gold Coast" was gave to the city by land financial specialists. The principal settlement in what is presently South East Queensland was as a punitive province at Redcliffe. The Gold Coast district remained generally uninhabited by Europeans until 1823 when pioneer John Oxley arrived at Mermaid Beach. The hinterland's red cedar supply pulled in individuals to the region in the mid-nineteenth century. Later in 1875, Southport was overviewed and made and developed a notoriety for being a confined occasion end for high society Brisbane inhabitants. 

The Gold Coast locale developed essentially after the station of the Surfers Paradise lodging in the late 1920s. The range blasted in the 1980s as a heading vacationer terminus and in 1994, the Gold Coast City nearby government zone was extended to incorporate most of the Gold Coast's metropolitan region, turning into the second most crowded neighborhood government territory in Australia after the City of Brisbane. The Gold Coast is today a significant vacationer terminus with its sunny subtropical atmosphere, surfing shorelines, waterway and conduit frameworks, its skyscraper ruled horizon, amusement parks, nightlife, and rainforest hinterland, making tourism one of its most critical commercial ventures. Gold Coast will have the 2018 Commonwealth Games. 

Gold Coast City lies in the southeast corner of Queensland, to the south of Brisbane, the state capital. The Albert River differentiates Gold Coast from Logan City, a suburban zone of Brisbane. 

Gold Coast City extends from Beenleigh and Russell Island to the fringe with New South Wales (NSW) give or take 56 km (35 mi) south, and stretches out from the coast west to the foothills of the Great Dividing Range in World Heritage recorded Lamington National Park. 

Elevated perspective of Gold Coast suburbs: Mermaid Waters (left) and Broadbeach Waters (right) 

The southernmost town of Gold Coast City, Coolangatta, incorporates Point Danger and its beacon. Coolangatta is a twin city with Tweed Heads placed straightforwardly over the NSW fringe. At 28.1667°s 153.55°e, this is the most easterly point on the Queensland territory (Point Lookout on the seaward island of North Stradbroke is marginally further east). From Coolangatta, give or take forty kilometers of occasion resorts and surfing shorelines extend north to the suburb of Main Beach, and after that further on Stradbroke Island. The suburbs of Southport and Surfers Paradise structure Gold Coast's business focus. The real waterway in the territory is the Nerang River. A significant part of the area between the beachfront strip and the hinterland was once wetlands emptied by this waterway, yet the bogs have been changed over into man-made conduits (in excess of 260 kilometers (160 mi) in length or in excess of 9 times the length of the channels of Venice, Italy) and counterfeit islands secured in upmarket homes. The vigorously created beachfront strip sits on a limited hindrance sandbar between these conduits and the ocean. 

To the west, the city fringes a piece of the Great Dividing Range usually alluded to as the Gold Coast hinterland. A 206 km2 (80 sq mi) segment of the mountain reach is ensured by Lamington National Park and has been recorded as a World Heritage zone in distinguishment of its "exceptional topographical gimmicks showed around shield volcanic holes and the high number of uncommon and undermined rainforest species".The region pulls in bushwalkers and day-tripper.