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Surfers
Paradise, Gold Coast, Australia
Surfers
Paradise (28°00'S 153°25'E) is a suburb
on Australia's Gold Coast in Queensland. Colloquially
known as 'Surfers', the suburb is famous for its
many high-rise apartment buildings and wide surf
beach. The central feature of the Surfers Paradise
CBD is Cavill Mall, which runs through the centre
of the main shopping precinct.
History
James Beattie, a farmer (and no relation to current
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie) became the first
European to settle in the Surfers Paradise area
when he staked out an 80 acre farm on the northern
bank of the Nerang River, close to the location
of present-day Cavill Avenue. The farm proved
unsuccessful and was sold in 1877 to German immigrant
Johann Meyer, who turned the land into a sugar
farm and mill. Meyer also had little luck growing
in the sandy soil and within a decade had auctioned
off the farm and started a private ferry service
and built the Main Beach hotel as tourist attractions.
By 1889 Meyer's hotel had become an official postal
receiving office and the subdivisions surrounding
it were given the name Elston, named by the Southport
Postmaster Mr Palmer after his wife's home village
in Nottingham, England. The Main Beach Hotel licence
lapsed after Meyer's death in 1901 and for the
next 16 years Elston was a tourist town without
a hotel or post office.
In
1917 a land auction was held by Brisbane real
estate company Arthur Blackwood Ltd, who were
trying to sell subdivided blocks in Elston as
the 'Surfers' Paradise Estate', but the auction
failed because access to the area was still too
difficult. This was the first recorded reference
to the Surfers Paradise name, but like the Gold
Coast, the title may well have been part of local
vernacular prior to the land auction.
Elston
began to get considerably more visitors after
the opening of the Jubilee Bridge in 1925 and
the extension of the South Coast Road; the area
was serviced until that time only by Meyer's Ferry
at the Nerang River. Suddenly, Elston was no longer
cut off by the river and speculators began buying
up land around the villages of Elston, and Burleigh
Heads. Estates down the coast were heavily promoted
and hotels began opening to accommodate both tourists
and investors.
Brisbane
hotelier Jim Cavill opened the Surfers Paradise
Hotel that same year, and suddenly the town had
its first real landmark. Located between the ferry
jetty and the white surf beach just off the South
Coast Road, it became a popular spot and various
shops and services sprang up around it. In the
following years Cavill led a push to have the
name Elston changed to the more marketable Surfers'
Paradise and in 1933 his lobbying paid off and
the town officially acquired its present name.
The
boom of the 1950s and 1960s was largely centred
on this area and the first of the tall apartment
buildings that now characterise the skyline were
constructed in the decades that followed. Little
remains of the early vegetation or natural features
of the area and even the historical association
of the beachfront development with the river is
tenuous. The early subdivision pattern remains,
although later reclamation of the islands in the
Nerang River as housing estates, and the bridges
to those islands, has created a contrast reflected
in subdivision and building form. Some early remnants
survived such as Budd's Beach — a low-scale
open area on the river which even in the early
history of the area was a centre for boating,
fishing and swimming.
Some
minor changes have occurred in extending the road
along the beachfront since the early subdivision
and The Esplanade road is now very much a focus
of activity in this part of the Gold Coast. Promenading
and people-watching takes place in this area where
land use encourages not only residential activity
but tourism with supporting shops and restaurants.
The intensity of activity, centred on Cavill,
Orchid and Elkhorn Avenues, is reflected in the
density of building development. Of all places
on the Gold Coast the buildings in this area constitute
a dominant and enduring image visible from many
vantage points in the city from as far south as
Coolangatta as well as from the mountain resorts
of the hinterland and beyond.
Foreshoreways
The Gold Coast Oceanway travels along a beachfront
alignment between Narrowneck and Surfers Central
but then diverts inland to travel along a narrow
corridor along Garfield and Northcliffe Terraces
behind the beachfront highrises. Gold Coast City
Council proposed to create a new Oceanway pavement
along the public road reserve between the highrise
buildings and the dunes but there was considerable
opposition from local residents.
The
Surfers Riverwalk travels along the Nerang River
foreshores through Surfers Paradise.
Events
Since
1991 the Champ Car World Series has run an annual
race on the streets of Surfers Paradise, an event
currently known as the Lexmark Indy 300.
Each
Wednesday there is a night market held along the
beachside boardwalk at the top of Cavill St.,
and on Friday nights as well in the summer.
Schoolies
week is celebrated by around 50,000 high school
graduates each November.
Trivia
In the post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max 2: The
Road Warrior, the "paradise" that the
refugees hoped to reach is none other than Surfers
Paradise.
Surfers Paradise beach was voted as one of the
best beaches in the world by the American Travel
Channel.
Surfers Paradise beach was judged Queensland's
Cleanest Beach in 2006 by the Keep Australia Beautiful
Council (Credit:
Wikipedia).
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