Isle of Capri is a neighbourhood within the suburb of Surfers Paradise in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.[1]
History
editThe area served as a sugar harvest for the nearby Benowa Sugar Mill in the late 1800s and early 1900s[2] before becoming a dairy. In the 1950s, local Italian-Australian Efim Zola began a canal development project which involved raising unused farmland[3] and renamed the area Isle of Capri after Capri island in Italy. Future Gold Coast Mayor Sir Bruce Small overtook the project in 1958 and completed unfinished developments.[4]
As of the early 2000s, the Isle of Capri is considered an affluent neighbourhood of the Gold Coast.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Isle of Capri – neighbourhood in the City of Gold Coast (entry 16879)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
- ^ "Gold Coast Suburbs: What did they used to look like?". Triple M Queensland. Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- ^ "The Making of Surfers Paradise" (PDF). Queensland University of Technology. British Australian Studies Association. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ^ "Gold Coast Stories - Bruce Small". City of Gold Coast. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
- ^ "Surfers Paradise the Gold Coast's most expensive suburb". realestate.com.au. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
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