BURLEIGH HEADS, QUEENSLAND

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Located midway between Coolangatta and Southport, Burleigh Heads is an unspoilt headland surrounded by the tourist development of the Gold Coast where the visitor can experience what this coastline was like before the tourist invasion.
Location: 89 km south of Brisbane
Origin of name: named by surveyor J. R. Warner in 1840. He originally spelt it Burly Heads. The Aboriginal name for Little Burleigh was Jellurgal and for Big Burleigh, Jabbribillum. Burghley House was the family seat of the famous Cecil family in England. Lord Burleigh, the Marquis of Exeter, and in his political involvements upheld the long-standing English discrimination against Roman Catholics as well as resisting other reforms.
Brief history: The area was first settled by whites in the 1880s as a holiday village, and as such, heralded the beginning of the use of the Gold Coast region as a holiday resort.
Natural features: South Pacific Ocean; Tallebudgera Creek; Burleigh Head National Park; Nobby Beach; South Nobby; North Burleigh Beach; Burleigh Beach; Pacific Beach; Palm Beach; Currumbin Creek; The Knoll (Burleigh) Environmental Park; Tallebudgera Creek Environmental Park
Built features: localities of Nobby Beach, Miami, Palm Beach and Robina; Fleay's Wildlife Park; Balloonwalk (the first permanently moored, passenger carrying, observation balloon in Australia)