13 Facts About Coolangatta

Coolangatta is a coastal suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Gold Coast Airport, formerly known as Coolangatta Airport, is not located within the present suburb boundaries but within neighbouring Bilinga with part of the runway extendind across the border into Tweed Heads in New South Wales.

Coolangatta was one of the earliest settlements on the Gold Coast.

In 1914, Coolangatta had its own local government, the Town of Coolangatta, but in 1949 it was amalgamated into the Town of South Coast, which later became City of Gold Coast.

In May 1927, the Tweed Heads and Coolangatta star amalgamated with the Coolangatta Chronicle to become the Border Star.

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One impact on the border closure was the need to duplicate services across the twin towns on the Queensland side of the border, as at 1 February 1919, Coolangatta had no doctor, no pharmacist, no milkman, no butcher and no undertaker.

Griffith Street at Coolangatta was one of the police checkpoints, while other crossing points were closed.

Coolangatta has a humid subtropical climate with warm, wet summers and cool, moist winters.

Coolangatta State School is a government primary school for boys and girls at Stapylton Street.

Coolangatta campus of TAFE Queensland is a technical college at 5 Scott Street.

Coolangatta Tweed Heads Australian Football Club is a Gold Coast based club competing in the AFL Queensland Australian rules football competition.

Coolangatta is featured in the song It's Hot in Brisbane but it's Coolangatta, recorded in 1953 by Gwen Ryan, Claude Carnell's Orchestra and additional vocals from Doug Roughton's Hokey Pokey Club.

Coolangatta was used as the fictitious town of Porpoise Spit in the 1994 film Muriel's Wedding.