History of Gold Coast

The History of Gold Coast opens up the door to the world of the Aborigines, their language and their culture. Kurrungal, as they called the Gold Coast, was home to the Kombumerris Tribe. The Aborigines socialized with the other members of their tribe and the Cascade Gardens was the witness to this tradition. They spent their lives without any interference from the foreigners for 23,000 years.

The Europeans entered the history of Gold Coast when Captain James Cook, noticed the region on the 16 th of May 1770. He named the Gold Coast region as Point Danger and Mount Warning. With this there were expeditions by Captain Matthew Flinders in 1802 and John Oxley in 1823. One of the major reasons of European inhabitance in the hinterland of Gold Coast was the unending supply of the red cedar wood.

In the year 1840 the region was charted in the map of Australia by Dixon, a government surveyor. After him, Sir Thomas Mitchell made the importance of the aboriginals felt by renaming many of the places from their anglicized versions. As a result, River Barrow was renamed as Nerang River beside many other changes.

The history of Gold Coast started to change owing to the trade of red cedar wood and by the end of the year 1850; the European population touched 2,000 mark. Nine years later, in the December of 1859 a new colony of Queensland came into existence.

With the establishment of the Surfer's Paradise Hotel in the year 1925, by Jim Cavill, tourism found an important place in the history of Gold Coast. Since then the Gold Coast region has become the tourist capital of Australia.

Hotels in Gold Coast
Copacabana Hotel	Sandcastles On Broadwater Hotel
Royal Woods Resort	Chancellor Resort Hope Harbour Hotel
Surf Regency Hotel	Vibe Hotel Surfers Paradise