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The History of the Gold Coast
http://www.reflections.com.au/GoldCoast/History/index.html
Write questions for these answers.
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1. The Aborigines knew the Gold Coast Area as Kurrungul.
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2. Tribal feasts were held at Bora rings and middens.
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3. Captain Cook named Point Danger and Mount Warning in 1770.
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4. A government surveyor named Dixon charted the Gold Coast region in 1840.
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5. The River Barrow became the Nerang River, the River Perry became Tallebudgera Creek, Anson Creek became Currumbin Creek and the River Arrowsmith became the Coomera River.
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6. Queensland was not a state but was still part of New South Wales.
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7. There were only 1,599 white people.
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8. Loggers Edmund Harper and William Duncan are credited as being the first home owners in Surfers Paradise.
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9. They logged prized cedar wood.
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10. J. Meyers was known as an aggressive settler who brought visitors to the area.
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11. James Cavill in 1923.
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12. Since the 1950's.
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13. Sir Bruce Small
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14. Gold Coast City area became the seventh largest city in Australia.