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unusual facts about The Gold Coast



Nelson DeMille

His works include Word of Honor (made into a 2003 TV movie starring Don Johnson), The Charm School, The Gold Coast, Plum Island, and The General's Daughter (made into a 1999 movie starring John Travolta).


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2007 Gold Coast Titans season

The Gold Coast Titans' first ever trial match resulted in a 32-6 loss to the previous season's grand finalists Melbourne Storm, however wins over the Parramatta Eels and Penrith Panthers later on led to predictions for a bright start to the Titans' premiership campaign.

Achimota School

Achimota, originally known as the Prince of Wales College and School, was formally opened on 28 January 1927 by the then Governor of the Gold Coast, Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg.

African Company

African Company of Merchants, 18th- and 19th-century British Chartered Company in the Gold Coast of Africa

Austinville

Austinville, Queensland, a suburb of the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.

Bids for the 2018 Commonwealth Games

Ron Clarke, a medallist at both Commonwealth and Olympic Games and present Mayor of the Gold Coast, is expected to take a key role in promoting the bid.

Carl Christian Reindorf

He wrote The History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti in the Ga language.

Carrara, Queensland

Following the games the precinct will become the Gold Coast's premier athletics facility along with AFL team the Gold Coast Football Club continuing to use Carrara Stadium as their home ground and training base.

The Carrara Entertainment Precinct is expected to be built opposite the Sports Precinct and will include a showgrounds area that will see the area host the Gold Coast Show as well as musical festivals such as Big Day Out.

Cazaly's Stadium

With 30 seconds left in the 4th quarter the Gold Coast Suns trailed by 10 points, but kicked two goals including one after the siren by rugby league convert Karmichael Hunt to win the match.

Electoral district of Albert

It was split up in the 1949 redistribution ahead of the 1950 state election into Darlington, which included Redland, Logan, Beaudesert, Coomera, Jimboomba and Tamborine; and Southport which was limited to the Gold Coast and its hinterland.

Electoral district of Burleigh

It also includes parts of the Gold Coast suburbs of Miami, Mermaid Beach, Varsity Lakes and Palm Beach.

Electoral district of Mermaid Beach

A compact urban, coastal electorate, Mermaid Beach includes the Gold Coast suburbs of Mermaid Beach, Mermaid Waters, Broadbeach Waters, Merrimac, Florida Keys, Miami Keys and parts of Robina.

Erasmus Ransford Tawiah Madjitey

E.R.T. Madjitey taught Mathematics and Latin at Accra Academy briefly before joining the Gold Coast Police Force in 1948 as one of its first Ghanaian college graduates.

Frances Claudia Wright

Smith had served as puisine judge on the Gold Coast after attending QEGS in Wakefield, England.

George Padmore

As Carol Polsgrove has shown in Ending British Rule in Africa: Writers in a Common Cause, Padmore and his allies in the 1930s and 1940s—among them C. L. R. James, Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, the Gold Coast's Kwame Nkrumah and South Africa's Peter Abrahams—saw publishing as a strategy for political change.

Gold Coast Dolphins

Gold Coast Titans, a proposed name for an Australian professional rugby league football team based on the Gold Coast in Queensland

Gold Coast Film Festival

The Gold Coast Film Festival also supported Australia's first online video maker award ceremony, the Australian Webstream Awards in 2013.

The Gold Coast Film Festival is an annual film festival held at Pacific Fair Shopping Centre on Australia's Gold Coast.

Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens

The Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens, formerly known as the Rosser Park Regional Botanic Gardens, and before that simply Rosser Park, are located on Ashmore Road, Benowa, Gold Coast, Australia.

GoldLinQ

In June 2011 the GoldLinq consortium comprising Bombardier Transportation, Downer EDI, Keolis, McConnell Dowell and Plenary Group was awarded the contract to build the light and operate the Gold Coast light rail line for 18 years.

Griffin McMaster

McMaster was educated at The Southport School from grades 10-12 (1998-200), located on the Gold Coast.

Guy Mutton

Guy Christopher Mutton, also known as Mutto (born in England, 17 October 1976), is an Australian singer, a Top 12 contestant in the fourth season of Australian Idol and lead singer of the Gold Coast based rock band, Soulframe.

H. V. Meyerowitz

The Rev. H.M.Grace, the Principal of Achimota College in the Gold Coast (Ghana), offered Meyerowitz the job of arts and crafts supervisor.

John H. Smith

John Hope Smith (died 1831), English Colonial Head of the Gold Coast

Kuraby, Queensland

Kuraby is serviced by a fast electric train service to Brisbane city and the Gold Coast, whilst a bus service takes commuters to the large shopping centres of Upper Mount Gravatt and Springwood.

Kwamena Bartels

Bartels is a member of the Afro-European Bartels family, whose ancestor Cornelius Ludewich Bartels was Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast between 1798 and 1804, and whose son Carel Hendrik Bartels was the most important mulatto trader on the Gold Coast in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.

Nathan Eyres-Brown

That same year he was also then selected in the Gold Coast Dolphins Under 16s side, coached by Scott Sattler.

Ormeau

Ormeau, Queensland - A town on the Gold Coast hinterland in Queensland, Australia

Paula Stafford

Her work is on display at the Gold Coast Historical Society museum in Bundall, Queensland.

Peggielene Bartels

Bartels is a member of the Afro-European Bartels family, whose ancestor Cornelius Ludewich Bartels was Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast between 1798 and 1804, and whose son Carel Hendrik Bartels was the most prominent biracial slave trader on the Gold Coast in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.

Peter Andre

During his teenage years Andre dated Elizabeth Pirie and attended Benowa State High School on the Gold Coast.

R. P. Baffour

R.P. Baffour was also a great grandson of George Emil Eminsang, who was the very first Western educated lawyer on the Gold Coast.

Ron Clarke

Clarke resigned as Mayor of the Gold Coast on 27 February 2012, when he announced his nomination to run as an independent candidate for the seat of Broadwater in the 2012 Queensland state election.

Ronald Clarke

Ron Clarke, former athlete from Australia who holds world records in long-distance running and is currently mayor of the Gold Coast, Queensland

Rugrats Runaway Reptar

Escape from Madagascar, a steel inverted roller coaster at the Dreamworld theme park on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Seair

Seair Pacific, an airline based on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia

Steven Ciobo

He said turning Surfers Paradise into a world-class entertainment precinct to rival Las Vegas and Macau was the solution to save the Gold Coast from rising unemployment and economic doom.

Tennis Gold Coast

Famous players from the Gold Coast are players such as Samantha Stosur and Bernard Tomic.

Tetteh Quarshie

Whether Tetteh Quarshie was actually the first person to introduce cocoa to Ghana was questioned during the administration of Sir Gordon Guggisberg, British Governor of the Gold Coast from 1919 to 1927.

The Kokoda Challenge

Starting in the Gold Coast Hinterland suburb of Mudgeeraba, the track follows selected fire trails and paths through Austinville, Springbrook, Numinbah Valley, Beechmont and Clagiraba to the finish line at the Nerang Velodrome.

Thomas Hutton-Mills

Thomas Hutton-Mills, Sr. (1865-1931), a lawyer and politician in the Gold Coast

Three Californias Trilogy

In The Gold Coast (1988) we learn about the Southern California of 2027, a dystopian extension of today's Los Angeles and car-oriented architecture, mobility and life-style: "an endless sprawl of condos, freeways and malls." The book describes the life of 27-year-old Jim McPherson, who finds himself caught up in literary and academic interests, anti-weapons-industry terrorism, drugs, parties and casual sex.

Verity Barton

She went onto further studies in Law and Politics at Bond University on the Gold Coast and Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, Illinois.