Tweed Heads, New South Wales

Tweed Heads, New South Wales

Infobox Australian Place
type = town
name = Tweed Heads
city =
state = nsw


imagesize = 270
caption = Location of Tweed Heads in New South Wales (red)
pop = 51,788
pop_footnotes = Census 2006 AUS|id=UCL134000|name=Gold Coast-Tweed Heads (Tweed Hds Pt) (Urban Centre/Locality)|accessdate=2008-03-25|quick=on|
]
density =
density_footnotes =
est =
postcode = 2485
coordinates = coord|28|11|S|153|33|E|region:AU_type:city|display=inline,title
elevation = 1
elevation_footnotes=
area =
area_footnotes =
timezone = AEST
utc = +10
timezone-dst = AEDT
utc-dst = +11
propval =
dist1 = 104
dir1 = SSE
location1 = Brisbane
dist2 = 830
dir2 = N
location2 = Sydney
dist3 = 22
dir3 = SSE
location3 = Surfers Paradise
lga = Tweed Shire Council
region =
county =
stategov = Tweed
fedgov = Richmond
maxtemp = 25.8
mintemp = 14.4
rainfall = 1581.5

Tweed Heads is a town located in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia in Tweed Shire. Tweed Heads is located next to the border with Queensland, adjacent to the "Twin Town" of Coolangatta, a suburb of the Gold Coast. It is often referred to as a town where you can change time zones - even celebrate New Year twice within an hour - simply by crossing the street, due to its close proximity to the Queensland border, and the fact that New South Wales observes daylight saving whereas Queensland does not.

Tweed Heads was once connected to the Queensland Railways system, providing a direct connection to Brisbane. ["Rails to the Tweed - A QR Station in NSW" Milne, Rod Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, October, 2001 pp363-377] The site of the station has been converted to parklands and commercial development. ["Coolangatta and Tweed Heads Revisited" Newland, John R. Australian Railway History, August, 2005 pp304-307]

Tweed Heads lies on the Tweed River.

History

Timber cutters originally moved to the Tweed Valley in 1844. After the timber had been cleared, farmers moved in and bananas, cane and dairy farming became prominent as well as a fishing industry developing also.

Tourist destinations

Given its close proximity with the tourist area of Gold Coast, Tweed Heads has a shared economy with Coolangatta based heavily on tourism. Some of Tweed Heads' most popular tourist destinations include Mount Warning, which is one of the largest shield volcanoes in the Southern Hemisphere, only slightly smaller than Banks Peninsula. Other popular tourist destinations are the surrounding Nightcap, Border Rangers, Springbrook and Lamington National Parks, in which there is an abundance of sub-tropical animals.

[http://www.thbc.com.au Tweed Heads Bowls Club]
* [http://www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/ Tweed Shire Council]
* [http://www.tropicalnsw.com.au/aaa_site/places/index.html Regional guide from tropicalnsw.com.au]
* [http://www.tweedtourism.com.au/ Tweed Tourism Inc - visitor information for the Tweed region]
* [http://www.bigvolcano.com.au/places/tweedhea.htm Wollumbin Visitor Directory Tweed Heads - Coolangatta]

References

*cite web
publisher = Bureau of Meteorology
title=Murwillumbuh (Bray Park)
work=Climate Averages for Australian Sites
url = http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_058158.shtml
accessdate = 2008-03-25


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