Tweed Heads - Captain Cook memorial at Point Danger
Tweed Heads is a town located on the Tweed River in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in Tweed Shire. Tweed Heads is located next to the border with Queensland, adjacent to the Twin Town of Coolangatta, a suburb of the Gold Coast. It is often referred to as a town where you can change time zones -- even celebrate New Year twice within an hour -- simply by crossing the street, due to its close proximity to the Queensland border, and the fact that New South Wales observes daylight saving whereas Queensland does not.
It is located right on the New South Wales and Queensland border, so you can have one leg in each state!
The most significant monument at the state border between Coolangatta and Tweed Heads is the Captain Cook memorial at Point Danger, where scenic coastal views can be enjoyed.
View from Point Danger /Captain Cook Memorial
Point Danger Lighthouse and Captain Cook Memorial Lookout.
Parking: Marine Parade, Coolangatta QLD 4225
Location: Coolangatta QLD/ Tweed NSW border.
A sneak peek...
This video features:
Fingal Head in the distance with Cook Island.
Fingal Beach
Tweed Sand Bypass Jetty
Letitia Beach
The mouth of the Tweed River.
Duranbah Beach, North Tweed
Lover's Rock Park
Situated on the QLD side but right next to the NSW Border. This lookout offers spectacular views of both the NSW and QLD coastline.
This video is from the Captain Cook Memorial which is located to the right of the cark park and is on the border itself. So you can literally stand with one foot in each state!
Here, you can read about the Point Danger's namesake and history in relation to Captain James Cook's account. It is also the Point Danger Light...though not your typical lighthouse, rather this one mirrors the 4 points of the compass and has the light situated 148 feet above sea level.
Yes I know really bad of me not to show the actual Memorial and Point Danger Lighthouse in this video, but I was a little distracted by the view...next time.
If you are interested in learning more, please walk along the path of the Coolangatta Centaur Remembrance Walk and discover the history of the ships and the crew that this place has claimed through enemy action during the Second World War.
And if you are feeling fit, you can also walk from here down to Snapper Rocks...just remember if you walk down the hill, you have to walk back up...or call a mate to come pick you up at the bottom...lol..or just drive down. Either way, if you are in this area for the first time, please take the opportunity to explore the beauty of the surrounding coastline.
Filmed: December 2019
TOP 10 COOLANGATTA (GOLD COAST) Attractions (Things to Do & See)
Best places to visit in Coolangatta (Gold Coast) - Queensland. Coolangatta is suburb in southermost Gold Coast. Coolangatta is well known for its beautiful beach such as Coolangatta Beach, Kirra Beach, Greenmount Beach, Rainbow Bay and Snapper Rocks.
Things to do in Coolangatta (Gold Coast) besides enjoy the beaches is to visit tourist attractions such as Kirra Hill, Captain Cook Memorial and Lighthouse, The Strand Shopping Centre, Saint Augustine's Catholic Church, Twin Towns Uniting Church, St Peter's Anglican Church and U.S.S Mugford.
To know more about where to go or what to do in Coolangatta - Gold Coast, Explore Australia provide the tourist attractions in Coolangatta in this video completely.
Point Danger and Duranbah Beach, Tweed Heads
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.
The point is the location of the Captain Cook memorial and lighthouse, the Centaur Memorial and Walk of Remembrance, the Marine Rescue NSW Point Danger station, and the southern end of the Gold Coast Oceanway.
Coolangatta Beach & Point Danger Gold Coast Australia
Coolangatta Beach & Point Danger Gold Coast Australia
In this video we take a walk along the pristine Coolangatta Beach all the way along to Point Danger Light House. The Gold Coast Beaches are some of the best in the world and in this video you will see why.
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Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
The Gold Coast is a metropolitan region south of Brisbane on Australia’s east coast. It's famed for its long sandy beaches, surfing spots and elaborate system of inland canals and waterways. It’s also home to theme parks such as Dreamworld, Sea World and Wet’n’Wild. Inland, hiking trails crisscross Lamington National Park’s mountain ridges and valleys, home to rare birds and rainforest. The Gold Coast is approximately half covered by forests of various types. This includes small patches of near-pristine ancient rainforest, mangrove-covered islands, and patches of coastal heathlands and farmland with areas of uncleared eucalypt forest. Of the plantation pine forests that were planted in the 1950s and 1960s, when commercial forest planting for tax minimisation was encouraged by the Commonwealth government, tiny remnants remain.
Gold Coast City lies in the southeast corner of Queensland, to the south of Brisbane, the state capital. The Albert River separates the Gold Coast from Logan City, a suburban area of Brisbane.
Gold Coast City stretches from Beenleigh and Russell Island to the border with New South Wales (NSW) approximately 56 km (35 mi) south, and extends from the coast west to the foothills of the Great Dividing Range in World Heritage listed Lamington National Park.
The southernmost town of Gold Coast City, Coolangatta, includes Point Danger and its lighthouse. Coolangatta is a twin city with Tweed Heads located directly across the NSW border. At 28.1667°S 153.55°E, this is the most easterly point on the Queensland mainland (Point Lookout on the offshore island of North Stradbroke is slightly further east). From Coolangatta, approximately forty kilometres of holiday resorts and surfing beaches stretch north to the suburb of Main Beach, and then further on Stradbroke Island. The suburbs of Southport and Surfers Paradise form the Gold Coast's commercial centre. The major river in the area is the Nerang River. Much of the land between the coastal strip and the hinterland were once wetlands drained by this river, but the swamps have been converted into man-made waterways (over 260 kilometres (160 mi) in length[26] or over 9 times the length of the canals of Venice, Italy) and artificial islands covered in upmarket homes. The heavily developed coastal strip sits on a narrow barrier sandbar between these waterways and the sea.
To the west, the city borders a part of the Great Dividing Range commonly referred to as the Gold Coast hinterland. A 206 km2 (80 sq mi) section of the mountain range is protected by Lamington National Park and has been listed as a World Heritage area in recognition of its outstanding geological features displayed around shield volcanic craters and the high number of rare and threatened rainforest species.[27] The area attracts bushwalkers and day-trippers. Important rainforest pollinating and seed-dispersing Black flying foxes (pteropus alecto) are found in the area and may be heard foraging at night.
Australia is a country and continent surrounded by the Indian and Pacific oceans. Its major cities – Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide – are coastal. Its capital, Canberra, is inland. The country is known for its Sydney Opera House, the Great Barrier Reef, a vast interior desert wilderness called the Outback, and unique animal species like kangaroos and duck-billed platypuses.
Being the oldest,[13] flattest[14] and driest inhabited continent,[15][16] Australia has a landmass of 7,617,930 square kilometres (2,941,300 sq mi).[17] A megadiverse country, its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes, with deserts in the centre, tropical rainforests in the north-east and mountain ranges in the south-east.[18] A gold rush began in Australia in the early 1850s, which boosted the population of the country.[19] Nevertheless, its population density, 2.8 inhabitants per square kilometre, remains among the lowest in the world.[20] Australia generates its income from various sources including mining-related exports, telecommunications, banking and manufacturing.[21][22][23] Indigenous Australian rock art is the oldest and richest in the world, dating as far back as 60,000 years and spread across hundreds of thousands of sites.[24]
Australia is a highly developed country, with the world's 13th-largest economy. It has a high-income economy, with the world's tenth-highest per capita income.[25] Australia is a regional power and has the world's 13th-highest military expenditure.[26] Australia has the world's 9th largest immigrant population with immigrants accounting for 26% of the population.[27][28] Having the second-highest human development index and the eighth-highest ranked democracy globally, the country ranks highly in quality of life, health, education, economic freedom, civil liberties and political rights,[29] with all its major cities faring well in global comparative livability surveys.[30] Australia is a member of the United Nations, G20,
Fingal Head/1
Twin town to Coolangatta across the Queensland border. Together they from one resort area continually expanding with new apartment block and houses, businesses and shopping centrers. The State border runs along the centres of Boundary St, with climbs the northern headland to Point Danger and the contemporary Captain Cook lighthouse astride the two States. A Memorial to the mariner in the from of a capstan is molded from the Endeavour's Ballast.
Pleasant Beaches fringe the coast and there is Excellent Fishing. Fingal Head, fractured columns of basalt, is also known as Devil's Causeway, after a similar formation in Ireland.
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Point Danger is a headland, located at 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.
The point is the location of the Captain Cook memorial and lighthouse, the Centaur Memorial and Walk of Remembrance, the Marine Rescue NSW Point Danger station, and the southern end of the Gold Coast Oceanway.
The Centaur Memorial remembers the sinking of Australian Hospital Ship Centaur by a Japanese submarine on 14 May 1943. The Walk of Remembrance commemorates other ships lost to Japanese and German action during World War II and takes the form of plaques arranged in a semicircle around the lookout fence.
Point Danger was named by Captain James Cook in 1770.
Fingal Lighthouse and the surrounding area, Northern NSW.
Fingal Lighthouse is located near the NSW and Qld border. The light house is one of the oldest public structures in the locality. To the north is Tweed Heads and Coolangatta, to the south is Kingscliff
16. tweed head tourist drive,NSW