47-696: Sunshine Coast may refer to: Sunshine Coast, Queensland , Australia Sunshine Coast Region , a local government area of Queensland named after the region Sunshine Coast Stadium Sunshine Coast (British Columbia) , geographic subregion of the British Columbia coast, Canada Sunshine Coast Regional District , regional district of British Columbia The Sunrise Coast , Suffolk, United Kingdom See also [ edit ] Costa del Sol (disambiguation) All pages with titles containing Sunshine Coast [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
94-736: A humid subtropical climate ( Cfa ) typical of South Queensland. Summers are generally hot, but moderated compared to areas on similar latitudes elsewhere. Winters retain warm days, but have cooler nights rendering it falling into the subtropical fold. There is no dry season and precipitation is generally quite high. The average temperature of the sea ranges from 21.2 °C (70.2 °F) in August to 27.1 °C (80.8 °F) in February at Mooloolaba , and from 21.2 °C (70.2 °F) in August to 27.3 °C (81.1 °F) in February at Noosa Heads . The Sunshine Coast economy has outpaced most of
141-485: A diverse agricultural sector. The most important commodities in the region based on the gross value of agricultural production were poultry ($ 66 million), followed by strawberries ($ 35 million) and milk ($ 29 million). These commodities together contributed 60 per cent of the total value of agricultural production in the region. At the 2016 census , the population of the Sunshine Coast was 346,522. The median age
188-747: A religious affiliation, the most frequent were: Catholic (18.2%), Anglican (16.8%), and Uniting Church (5.2%). Gubbi Gubbi The Kabi Kabi people, also spelt Gubbi Gubbi , Gabi Gabi , and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people native to South Eastern Queensland . During the Australian frontier wars of the 19th century, there were several mass killings of Kabi Kabi people by settlers. They are now classified as one of several Murri language groups in Queensland. A 2024 determination granted non-exclusive native title rights over an 365,345-hectare (902,790-acre) area of land and waters on
235-504: A second referendum resulted in 81% of residents voted to leave the amalgamated Sunshine Coast Region. On 9 November 2013 an election resulted in Noel Playford being elected to take office as mayor on 1 January 2014 with the new council. The Shire of Noosa was re-established on 1 January 2014. This resulted in two geopolitical areas occupying the area generally recognised as 'The Sunshine Coast'. The Sunshine Coast Region, governed by
282-460: A time with Kabi Kabi people. John Mathew , a clergyman turned anthropologist, also spent five years with them at Manumbar and mastered their language. During his time there he met Kabi bushranger Johnny Campbell , and described their society in a 1910 monograph, Two Representative Tribes of Queensland . Mathew also wrote an extensive notebook on the language of the Kabi Kabi people, which
329-433: A total of six applications for native title, with some earlier ones combined into later ones and one as of 2021 still active. The first two, made in 2006, were discontinued, while the third in the same year was dismissed. Claims made in 2013, and 2016 were combined, resulting in a sixth claim in 2018, which is still active. This claim covers an area from Redcliffe , not far north of Brisbane to around Isis Junction , in
376-733: Is a centre for tourism, attracting more than 3.2 million visitors a year. There are significant attractions, such as Steve Irwin 's Australia Zoo , UnderWater World marine park, Aussie World with the Ettamogah Pub , the Buderim Ginger Factory , the Big Pineapple , the Eumundi Markets and the Majestic Theatre, Pomona . Sports tourism is supported by several annual sporting events such as
423-490: Is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Gubbi Gubbi country. The Gubbi Gubbi language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Sunshine Coast Region and Gympie Region , particularly the towns of Caloundra , Noosa Heads , Gympie and extending north towards Maryborough and south to Caboolture . In 1770, James Cook on the deck of HM Bark Endeavour became
470-482: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Sunshine Coast, Queensland The Sunshine Coast is a peri-urban region in South East Queensland , Australia. In 1967, it was defined as "the area contained in the [former] Shires of Landsborough , Maroochy and Noosa , but excluding Bribie Island ". Located 100 km (62 mi) north of
517-464: Is home to many tour operators which are supported by welcomed 3.6 million domestic overnight visitors in the year ending September 2021. These visitors spent an estimated $ 2.7 billion in the region and help sustain local businesses. In 2017–18, the gross value of agricultural production in the Sunshine Coast region was $ 217 million, which was 2 per cent of the total gross value of agricultural production in Queensland ($ 13 billion). Agricultural land in
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#1732764883442564-603: Is home to more individual national parks than any other region in Queensland. The natural biodiversity of the area has been protected by five separate parks in both coastal and inland regions, including Mapleton Falls National Park , Kondalilla National Park , The Glass House Mountains National Park , Noosa National Park , and the Great Sandy National Park , which includes sections on Fraser Island and in Cooloola near Rainbow Beach. Sunshine Coast has
611-642: Is now held in State Library of Queensland . The Kabi Kabi people he grew up with numbered no more than a score by the early 1880s, and by 1906, after they had been forcibly removed to the Barambah reserve (an Aboriginal reserve created under the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897 ), he stated that only 3-4 full-blooded members of the group remained among
658-614: The Bundaberg region, but excluding Maryborough. In June 2024, the Federal Court under Justice Berna Collier formally recognised a claim over 365,345 ha (902,790 acres) of land and waters on the Sunshine Coast , including Gympie , Noosa , Maroochydore , Caloundra , Bribie Island , and Mudjimba Island . The ruling was significant for two reasons: it was the first to have been granted over an urbanised area on
705-523: The Burnett River . The slaughter was extensive, and the bones of many of the dead were uncovered on the site many decades later. Blaxland was in turn killed in a payback action sometime in July–August 1850. His death was revenged in a further large-scaled massacre of tribes in the area. The escaped convict James Davis , in addition to dwelling with several other tribes, is said to have lived for
752-741: The Gold Coast triggered interest in renaming the Near North Coast to increase the tourist appeal. Names considered included the Silver Coast, the Diamond Coast, and Suncoast. Suncoast was rejected as it was copyrighted by a proprietary company. In 1967, it was officially renamed the Sunshine Coast. Around the same time, various tourist attractions and theme parks were created, such as the Big Pineapple in Woombye . After
799-619: The Mooloolaba Triathlon , Noosa Triathlon and Sunshine Coast Marathon . The Sunshine Coast is served by the Sunshine Coast Airport 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north of Maroochydore, though many tourists also arrive from Brisbane Airport which is 100 kilometres (62 mi) to the south. As of November 2020 the Sunshine Coast is home of NightQuarter, an Eat Street-style precinct with live music and other immersive experiences. The Sunshine Coast region
846-624: The Moreton Bay (Brisbane) penal colony slightly to the south. In 1842, Governor George Gipps had the entire Sunshine Coast and hinterland from Mt Beerwah north to roughly Eumundi declared a "Bunya Bunya Reserve" for the protection of the bunya tree after Andrew Petrie advised him of the importance of bunya groves in Aboriginal culture. However, during the 1840s and 1850s, the Bunya Bunya Reserve and its vicinity became
893-424: The Sunshine Coast . As is often the case, ethnonyms distinguishing one tribe from another select the word used by any one group for the concept "no", which is the meaning of kabi/gubi/gabi . However, AIATSIS 's Austlang database prefers Gubbi Gubbi. The name Gubbi Gubbi , as shown in early history books, has been used in recent times interchangeably with Kabi Kabi . AIATSIS favours Gubbi Gubbi as for
940-636: The Turrbal to the south, the Taribelang north, Goreng Goreng to their northwest and the Wakka Wakka westwards. There have been a number of native title claims by various groups of contemporary Gubbi Gubbi/Kabi Kabi people, all through the same representative body, the Southern and Western Queensland Region. Other groups of descendants, using the "Kabi Kabi" spelling of the name, have made
987-676: The east coast , and the first occasion on which the right to "take resources from the area for any purpose" was recognised in South East Queensland . Former rights have been restricted to "personal, communal, and non-commercial purposes". The decision relates to Part A of the Kabi Kabi people's claim, with two further parts still to be determined. The rights are non-exclusive, meaning that they are subject to state and federal laws, and do not include freehold land. The area includes many sacred and ceremonial sites , including bora rings , and sites where paintings and axe-grinding stones exist. The determination makes no difference to residents living within
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#17327648834421034-519: The 1980s, the Sunshine Coast experienced rapid population growth. As of 2016 it had become one of the fastest-growing regions in Australia. As the region becomes increasingly residential, most of the district's distinctive small farms – especially tropical-fruit and sugar-cane farms have disappeared, as have most of its theme parks. The Moreton sugar mills closure in 2003 removed a market for the district's 120 cane growers who had been harvesting cane in
1081-771: The Gubbi Gubbi lands as roughly coextensive with the Mary River Basin , though stretching beyond it north to the Burrum River and south along the coast itself. He estimated their territory to cover 8,200 square miles (21,000 km ). According to Norman Tindale , however, the Gubbi Gubbi people were an inland group living in the Wide Bay–Burnett area, and their lands extended over 3,700 square miles (9,600 km ) and lay west of Maryborough . The northern borders ran as far as Childers and Hervey Bay . On
1128-586: The Gubbi-Gubbi and Butchulla languages , compiled by Jeanie Bell , with assistance from Amanda Seed, was published in 1994. The dictionary includes both Gubbi-Gubbi and Butchulla language vocabularies with an English finder-list; sources of words given; and notes on phonology, morphology, and syntax. During the colonisation of Queensland , there were particularly bloody frontier wars as settlers moved onto land that had been occupied by Aboriginal peoples for millennia. Some Gubbi Gubbi/ Kabi Kabi died in
1175-505: The Pegg brothers, were speared on the property while herding sheep. Gregory Blaxland, the 7th son of the eponymous explorer Gregory Blaxland took vengeance, heading a vigilante posse of some 50 squatters and station hands and, at Bingera , ambushed a group of 100 sleeping myalls of the "Gin gin tribe" who are usually identified now as the Gubbi Gubbi. They had feasted on stolen sheep. Marksmen picked off many, even those fleeing by diving into
1222-760: The Sunshine Coast Council and the Shire of Noosa, governed by Noosa Shire Council. Jessica Lane, Miss Earth 2024 and the only Australian to win Miss Earth beauty pageant, came from Sunshine Coast. Major rivers of the Sunshine Coast include Noosa River , Maroochy River , Mooloolah River and the Stanley River . The region includes several lakes such as Lake Cootharaba and Lake Weyba . Ewen Maddock Dam , Wappa Dam and Baroon Pocket Dam have been built for water storage. Several stretches of
1269-715: The Sunshine Coast are lined with unbroken beaches – from Sunshine Beach near Noosa to Coolum Beach (17 km (11 mi)); the coast from Point Arkwright to Mudjimba (11 km (6.8 mi)); the Maroochydore – Mooloolaba stretch (5.6 km (3.5 mi)); and from Buddina past the Caloundra CBD to Pelican Waters (22 km (14 mi)). Noosa Main Beach , Alexandra Headland , Mooloolaba (the spit) and Coolum Beach are nationally recognised surfing beaches. Notable beaches include: The Sunshine Coast
1316-521: The Sunshine Coast district has been split into two local government areas , the Sunshine Coast Region and the Shire of Noosa , which administer the southern and northern parts of the Sunshine Coast respectively. As of June 2021, with an estimated urban population of 398,840, the Sunshine Coast is the fifth most populated area in Queensland and the 9th most populous in the country. The population of
1363-440: The Sunshine Coast region occupies 1,100 square kilometres, or 36 per cent of the region. Areas classified as conservation and natural environments (nature conservation, protected areas and minimal use) occupy 880 square kilometres, or 29 per cent of the region. The most common land use by area is grazing native vegetation, which occupies 530 square kilometres or 17 per cent of the Sunshine Coast region. The Sunshine Coast region has
1410-614: The Wakka Wakka people was about 13,000 km (5,000 sq mi) that was roughly triangular to the west of the Kabi, including a small part of the Dawson, and meeting the northern Kabi boundary at Walla. The two tribes were friendly and intermarried and had the same class restrictions. The groups were nomadic , gathering food en-route as they moved from one campsite to the next. Gubbi Gubbi (Kabi Kabi, Cabbee, Carbi, Gabi Gabi)
1457-407: The area has grown steadily at an average annual rate of 2.4% year-on-year over the five years to 2018. The earliest residents of the Sunshine Coast were the indigenous Gubbi Gubbi and Wakka Wakka people. The territory of the Kabi includes about 21,000 square kilometres (8,200 sq mi) along the coastline from the 27th parallel northward to the mouth of the Burrum River . The country of
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1504-456: The boundaries of the title, and there is no right to block access to anyone from crown land , but that Kabi Kabi people could help to share their cultural heritage, as well as activities such as cultural burning to help care for the environment. The Sunshine Coast Council hopes to increase public access to culturally significant land, and provide educational tools such as signposts and information boards on walking trails. The Dictionary of
1551-469: The centre of Brisbane in South East Queensland , on the Coral Sea coastline, its urban area spans approximately 60 km (37 mi) of coastline and hinterland from Pelican Waters to Tewantin . The area has several coastal hubs at Caloundra , Kawana Waters , Maroochydore and Noosa Heads . Nambour and Maleny have developed as primary commercial centres for the hinterland. Since 2014,
1598-482: The first known European to sight the Glass House Mountains , located south-west of Caloundra. In the 1820s, former convicts John Finnegan , Thomas Pamphlett and Richard Parsons landed on Moreton Island after becoming hopelessly lost fetching cedar. They lived with the Kabi Kabi for eight months. Thereafter, during the 1830s to 1840s, the district became home to numerous runaway convicts from
1645-429: The gold fields of Gympie. After the construction of the railway line to Gympie , the coastal and river towns, being mostly ports for the early river trade, were bypassed. By the 1890s, diverse small farming (fruit and dairy) had replaced the cattle-and-timber economy of earlier decades. Sugar cane and pineapples proved especially important to produce for the district. Many small hamlets and towns now emerged. Produce
1692-472: The holiday seaside shack, including fibro cement , metal containers, and left-over farm sheds; even disused trams were sold off as seaside shacks. Especially after World War II, the Sunshine Coast grew into a holiday and surfing destination. This tendency was further expanded in the development boom of the 1960s and 1970s. Then known as the Near North Coast, the renaming of the South Coast to become
1739-502: The language, but also gives other spellings and name variants. but in recent publications has referred to the people as Kabi Kabi . Native title claims have been lodged in the name of Kabi Kabi people by the Kabi Kabi Aboriginal Corporation. There is a dance group called Gubbi Gubbi Dance Troupe that performs traditional dance and Welcomes to Country . John Mathew , who lived among them, described
1786-597: The mass poisoning of upwards of 60 Aboriginal people on the Kilcoy run in 1842. A further 50-60 are said to have been killed by food laced with arsenic at Whiteside Station in April 1847. As colonial entrepreneurs pushed into their territory to establish pastoral stations, they together with the Butchulla set up a fierce resistance: from 1847 to 1853, 28 squatters and their shepherds were killed. In June 1849 two youths,
1833-583: The region. Instead, businesses concerned with retail, catering and tourism have assumed increasing importance. In 2008, The Shire of Noosa , Shire of Maroochy and City of Caloundra merged to form the Sunshine Coast Region . The 2007 referendum conducted by the Australian Electoral Commission and leading to the merger remained controversial in Noosa Shire, where 95% of voters had rejected amalgamation. In March 2013,
1880-508: The regional economies in Australia in terms of growth over the last 15 years. The strength of the regional economy is based in its diversity and strength across a number of key sectors including healthcare, education, finance and professional business services. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data from the May 2019 Labour Force Survey indicate that around 184,200 people were employed in the Sunshine Coast region. Health care and social assistance
1927-432: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sunshine_Coast&oldid=1251299153 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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1974-422: The scene of some of the most bitter skirmishes of Australia's " Black War ". The Blackall Range , on account of the tri-annual Bunya Festival, served as both a hideout and rallying point for attacks against white settlements. By the 1850s timber cutters and cattlemen had started exploiting the area; in 1860 the Bunya Bunya Reserve was scrapped. Many of the Sunshine Coast's towns began as simple ports or jetties for
2021-532: The south, they approached the headwaters of the Mary River and Cooroy . Westwards, they reached as far as the Coast Ranges and Kilkivan . Gubbi Gubbi country is currently located between Pumicestone Road , near Caboolture in the south, through to Childers in the north. Their country was originally rain forest, with cleared areas created by regular firing of the scrub. The neighbouring tribes were
2068-532: The timber industry during the 1860s and 1870s, as the area once had magnificent stands of forest. Likewise, the region's roads often began as snigging tracks for hauling timber. Timber getters used the region's creeks, rivers and lakes as seaways to float out their logs of cedar – the resultant wood being shipped as far afield as Europe. During the Gympie Gold Rush (1867), prospectors scaled the Sunshine Coast mountains to develop easier roadways to and from
2115-580: Was 44 years old, 6 years older than the nationwide median. The male-to-female ratio was 48.3-to-51.7. Most residents were born in Australia (73.7%), with 1.9% being Indigenous Australians. The most common countries of birth of other residents were England (6.2%), New Zealand (4.5%), South Africa (1.0%), Germany (0.7%), and Scotland (0.6%). The most commonly spoken languages other than English were German (0.6%), and Afrikaans , Dutch, French, and Italian (0.3% each). A large proportion of Sunshine Coast residents reported no religious affiliation (34.0%). Of those who had
2162-559: Was initially taken by horse to Landsborough, then to Eudlo in 1891. The post-World War I era saw the rise of the "seaside shack". The seaside shack provided the opportunity for the coastal "getaway" with modest investment. From 1914 to 1946, they popped up all along the North Coast (because it was north of Brisbane). Seaside shacks were exceedingly cheap and were an early use of the concept of recycling. Many were built of disused or second grade timber, all kinds of materials were used for
2209-439: Was the largest employment sector with 26,800 people, followed by construction with 26,500 people, and education and training with 21,200 people. Other important employment sectors in the region were accommodation and food services; retail trade; and professional, scientific and technical services. The agriculture, forestry and fishing sector employed 2,600 people, representing 1 per cent of the region's workforce. The Sunshine Coast
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