Palm Beach, Queensland

Palm Beach
Gold Coast, Queensland
Bridge over Tallebudgera Creek in the north of the suburb
Population 14,654 (2016 census)[1]
 • Density 2,090/km2 (5,400/sq mi)
Postcode(s) 4221
Area 7 km2 (2.7 sq mi)
Location 14 km (9 mi) south of Surfers Paradise
LGA(s) Gold Coast City
State electorate(s) Burleigh
Federal Division(s) McPherson
Suburbs around Palm Beach:
Burleigh Heads Burleigh Heads Pacific Ocean
Elanora Palm Beach Pacific Ocean
Elanora Currumbin Waters Currumbin
The shoreline at Palm Beach looking north to Burleigh National Park and Surfers Paradise

Palm Beach is a suburb on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, between Tallebudgera Creek and Currumbin Creek. At the 2006 Census, Palm Beach had a population of 13,494.

Geography

Palm Beach is an area with little in the way of natural features to enclose it or to set it apart from other places on the Gold Coast, though it has thrice been voted cleanest beach in Queensland.[2] Certainly subdivided by the mid-1950s the subdivision is unusual in the way in which it straddles both sides of the highway. Streets along the highway are named from first to twenty-eighth starting at the southern end of the area and each second one terminates at the highway. Between the beach and the highway in the southern part of the area the narrow Jefferson Lane links across streets. In this lane are some of the earliest and most basic of Gold Coast beach "shacks", some on blocks of land valued in millions of dollars. There is some suggestion that these in fact predate the subdivision and other remnants of an earlier settlement.

Recent extensions of the Palm Beach area to the west have created new subdivisions with different characteristics including a small section of canal development. The area is bounded to the north by the Tallebudgera Creek and the national recreation camp and to the south by tower developments at the mouth of Currumbin Creek. The creek mouths of Tallebudgera and Currumbin have been stabilised with training walls built during the 1970s. Both of the Creek entrances are dredged on an annual basis.[3] There are nearshore bait reefs along Palm Beach and offshore there are fishing reefs that are some of the most productive of the Gold Coast.

Laguna Lake is in the south western part of the suburb, with Elizabeth Sloper Gardens park around its edges. The Tallebudgera Creek Tourist Park, at the northern end of Palm Beach, provides holiday accommodation mainly for families. The adjacent Tallebudgera Recreational Camp is a national fitness camp visited by children from throughout Queensland.

History

The Palm Beach Library opened in 1998 and had a major refubishment in 2011.[4]

Sports and recreation

Neptune Royal Life Saving Club was the first female only club in Australia (often claimed as the world) and still provides patrol services for people swimming in Tallebudgera Creek estuary. It remains the only club on the Gold Coast not affiliated with Surf Life Saving.

Palm Beach is also patrolled by the Palm Beach Surf Life Saving Club at 7th Avenue and Pacific Surf Life Saving Club near 19th Avenue.

Local sporting clubs include soccer club Palm Beach Sharks, Palm Beach Currumbin Alleygators RUC and Palm Beach Currumbin Australian Football Club.

Education

The local high school is Palm Beach Currumbin High School.

Amenities

The Gold Coast City Council operate a community lounge and public library at Eleventh Avenue.[5]

Coastal management

Coastal management structures at Palm Beach include training walls at Currumbin and Tallebudgera Creek entrances and mini groynes at 11th and 21st Avenues. The Gold Coast Oceanway is of particular poor quality through Palm Beach due to the majority of the beachfront being effectively in private ownership . Recent loss of sand due to unusual weather and tidal patterns have caused some houses along the beachfront to lose their yards to the erosion.

Trivia

  • Palm Beach was judged Queensland's Cleanest Beach in 1999 and again in 2000 and 2011 by the Keep Australia Beautiful Council.[2]
  • Extreme erosion along Palm Beach in 2011 revealed rusted car bodies, among other aged items, usually many meters below sand.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Palm Beach (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 6 February 2018. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. 1 2 "Clean and healthy beaches". Gold Coast City. Archived from the original on 8 March 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  3. ↑ "Tallebudgera and Currumbin Creeks dredging". City of Gold Coast. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  4. ↑ "Public Libraries Statistical Bulletin 2016-17" (PDF). Public Libraries Connect. State Library of Queensland. November 2017. p. 13. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  5. ↑ "Palm Beach Community Lounge and Library". Gold Coast City Council. Retrieved 30 January 2018.

Coordinates: 28°07′00″S 153°27′30″E / 28.1167°S 153.4583°E / -28.1167; 153.4583

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