Nerang
1.
The site of the present township was called ‘Birribi’
after spirals of dead bark hanging from eucalypts
(Hanlon, W.E 1935, John Oxley Journal 2/80).
2.
The site of the present township was called ‘Eejung’
meaning wet grassy flats (Gresty, J.A 1947, The
Numinbah Valley, Its Geography History and Aboriginal
associations. John Oxley Journal 2/80)
3.
After the Nerang River ‘neerang’ meaning
‘little’ or ‘shovel nosed shark’
All
the early writers suggest that the river was named
by Europeans after the local dialect word ‘
neerang’ meaning either ‘ little’
or ‘shovel-nosed shark’ (Meston, Archibald
1905, John Oxley Journal 2/80).
To the local Aborigines the river was referred
to as ‘Mogumbin’ or ‘Been-goor-abee’
(Meston Archibald 1923, John Oxley Journal 2/80).
The Tweed tribes called the river ‘Talgai’
(Meston, Archibald 1898, John Oxley Journal 2/80)
Cotton
& Sugar Plantations: The story of the Nerang
Township began with the development of cotton
and sugar plantations on the Nerang River at Carrara,
Bundall, and Benowa. In 1865, after completing
survey work at Benowa Plantation, Government Surveyor,
Martin Lavelle, selected a site for a township
on a slope overlooking the Nerang River.
Street
Names: He named the first surveyed streets after
planters such as Edmund Price or the pastoralist
William Duckett White. By 1876, Nerang Township
was a small postal township, with a school and
hotel. The town served the needs of a rural population
of farmers and timber workers and was a rail head
for their produce and supplies after the town
was linked to the railway in 1889.
Nerang
Community: In the early years, Nerang was an administrative
centre for the region, with a courthouse, police
station, and meeting place for local councillors.
Gradually, Southport assumed many of these roles
and Nerang survived quietly as a picturesque centre
of the Hinterland. In the 1970s and 1980s, the
Gold Coast’s population grew rapidly and
many people made their homes in the new estates
which had expanded into the hinterland. Considerable
commercial, service and light industrial development
has grown around the town of Nerang. The former
sleepy hamlet is once again a centre for a number
of significant communities. (Credit:
Gold Coast City Council).
The
Nerang River
The
Nerang River is a river within Gold Coast City
in south-eastern Queensland. It starts in the
Lamington Plateau on the New South Wales border
and heads north, then east where it flows into
the Gold Coast Broadwater at Southport on the
Gold Coast.
Name
The
river was initially named the River Barrow by
government surveyor Robert Dixon when he charted
the Gold Coast in 1840, after Sir John Barrow,
Secretary of the Admiralty.[1] The surveyor general
Thomas Mitchell later changed many places to Aboriginal
names, and this included giving the Nerang River
its present name. Neerang is a Yugambeh word meaning
"little shark" or "shovel-nosed
shark". But the local aboriginal people in
fact called the river Mogumbin or Been-goor-abee.
And the peoples of the Tweed called it Talgai.
Dams
On
the Nerang river is the Hinze Dam, creating Advancetown
Lake, the Gold Coast's main water supply. An older
dam, higher up in the catchment and now called
the Little Nerang Dam was an earlier water supply
for the Gold Coast, Queensland. The dams are managed
by Gold Coast Water
Surfers Riverwalk
The
Gold Coast City Council is considering investing
into the quality and capacity of the Surfers Riverwalk.
The route would connect the Gold Coast Highway
Bridge crossing of the Nerang River at Main Beach
to Pacific Fair Shopping Centre at Broadbeach,
Queensland. The route includes
*
The western facing beaches of Main Beach
* The anabranch foreshores of McIntosh Island.
* Jaraparilla Cove
* The Marriott Hotel boardwalk
* Budds Beach
* Surfers Central Riverwalk[2] from Budds Beach
to Lionel Perry Park
* The Paradise Island anabranch
* Cannes Avenue Reach of the Nerang River
* Cascade Gardens foreshores of Little Tallebudgera
Creek
* Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre
boardwalk
* Jupiters Casino Island foreshores
* Pacific Fair Shopping Centre
Boatramps
Nerang
River Boatramps open to the public include:
*
Waterways Drive Main Beach
* Budds Beach
* Evandale (Commercial Use Only)
* Isle of Capri
* TE Peters Drive Broadbeach Waters (Convention
Centre)
* Carrara Road Carrara
* Nerang River Parklands Nerang (Credit:
Wikipedia).
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