Friday, June 13, 2008

Assignment 5 (Gold Coast, Australia)





GOLD COAST , AUSTRALIA

Name: Gold Coast, Queensland

Location: Australia

Population: 527.660 (334.52/km)

Famous for:
Tourism and Landmarks
Tourism is Gold Coast City’s main industry and is a most popular Queensland tourism location. Accommodation options available range from backparker hostels to five star resorts and hotels. The most common style of accommodation is three and four star self-contained apartments.

Major tourist attractions include internationally renowned surf beaches, World Haritage listed Hinterland National Parks, Dreamworld, Seaworld, Wet and Wild Water World, Warner Bros and others. The Goid Coast also serves as a gateway to futher tourist destinations within Queenland and Northern South Wales.

History:
Captain James Cook became the first European to note region when he sailed along the Coast on May 16, 1770 in the HM Bark Endeavour.
Captain Matthew Flinders, an explore charting the continent north from the colony of New South Wales, sailed past in 1802. The region remained uninhabited by Europeans until 1823 when explorer John Oxley landed at Mermaid Beach, which was named after his boat, a cutter named Mermaid.

Thing to see:
The city consists of 57kilometres of coastline with some of the most popular surf breaks in Australia including South Stradbroke Island, The Spit , Main Beach Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach, Mermaid Beach, Nobby Beach, Miami, Burleigh Beach and others.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
By, Atikah Hanani

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