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Burleigh Heads, QueenslandBurleigh Heads is a suburb of the Gold Coast. Stretching from South Nobby to Burleigh Heads this area comprises two distinct sub areas. The northern most portion consist of a strip from Brakes Crescent to the Gold Coast Highway and the second in the town of Burleigh Heads itself clustered around the headland of that name and the national park. The northern section appears to have been subdivided by the mid 1950s but was the site of extensive sand mining in the following decades. The broad beachfront park is a legacy of that activity. Burleigh township itself is much earlier and was the site of early development including hotels and guest houses to support the increasing interest in surf bathing that took place in the last years of last century and the first of the present century. The beachfront at Burleigh Heads has a sense of centre or focus with its mature stand of Norfolk Island Pines - reputably some of the earliest planted at the coast. The turn in the highway at Burleigh Heads to skirt the headland and cross Tallebudgera Creek is in itself unusual. It passes an early water hole that is now and has been for some years the bowling club is an important landmark or icon for the area. In the northern section a series of medium rise residential towers face the esplanade and the reserve. Dating from the 1970s they sit amongst earlier housing and unit development of a lower scale. The hotel and the steep rise to the small residential community at the northern headland helps in establishing the character of this area.
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