Why Kingscliff?
What 2487 has that nowhere else does. Every fact sourced.
- A World Rally Championship host
Kingscliff hosted a stage of the World Rally Championship in September 2009.Source: Wikipedia
- Home of the Sunnyboys
Brothers Peter and Jeremy Oxley, who formed the 1980s band the Sunnyboys, lived in Kingscliff.Source: Wikipedia
- Renamed Kingscliff in 1926
In 1926 the town took the name Kingscliff from a nearby estate, so it would no longer be confused with neighbouring Cudgen.Source: Wikipedia
- Named by Cook as Sutherland Point
Settlers first knew the area as Sutherland Point, a name James Cook gave it in 1770. It was later called Cudgen Headland.Source: Wikipedia
And the whole area: Why the Tweed?
Border town, big caldera, bigger story. Every fact sourced.
- A runway across two states
Gold Coast Airport's main runway cuts across the Queensland and NSW border.Source: Wikipedia
- Wild about nature
The Tweed has the highest biodiversity in NSW and 37 km of coastline.Source: Tweed Shire Council
- Wollumbin, the cloud catcher
Wollumbin (Mount Warning) stands 1,159 m and is part of the World Heritage-listed Gondwana Rainforests of Australia.Source: Wikipedia
- A town on the border
Tweed Heads sits on the Queensland border, beside its twin town Coolangatta.Source: Wikipedia
- Bundjalung Country
The Tweed Shire is on the Country of the Ngandowal and Minyungbal speaking people of the Bundjalung nation.Source: Tweed Shire Council
- Living inside a volcano
The Tweed sits in one of the largest natural erosion calderas in the world.Source: Tweed Shire Council
- Two time zones, one street
In daylight saving time, NSW is one hour ahead of Queensland, so Tweed Heads and Coolangatta show different times.Source: Tweed Regional Gallery
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