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The highest temperature ever recorded in Australia is 50.7 °C (123.3 °F), which was recorded on 2 January 1960 at Oodnadatta, South Australia, and 13 January 2022 at Onslow, Western Australia. The lowest temperature ever recorded in Australia is −23.0 °C (−9.4 °F), at Charlotte Pass, New South Wales
Situated within South East Queensland's growth corridor, the Gold Coast is one of Australia's fastest growing large cities, with a 5-year annual average population growth rate to 2015 of 1.8%, compared to 1.5% nationally. [69] Gross Regional Product has risen from A$9.7 billion in 2001, to A$15.6 billion in 2008, a rise of 61 percent. [70]
Daily temperatures in parts of the state in January and February can be up to 50 °C (122 °F). The highest maximum temperature was recorded as 50.7 °C (123.3 °F) at Oodnadatta on 2 January 1960, which is the highest official temperature recorded in Australia. The lowest minimum temperature was −8.0 °C (17.6 °F) at Yongala on 20 July 1976.
Peter Goldsworthy's comedic novel Honk If You Are Jesus set in fictional Gold Coast bible college. 1994 Muriel's Wedding's fictional Porpoise Spit shot in Coolangatta and other Gold Coast locations. Teen model Kristy Hinze appears in Vogue Australia. 1995 Shire of Albert becomes part of Gold Coast City. [3] Ray Stevens becomes mayor.
Queensland's capital city, Brisbane is located in the most populous region South East Queensland. Also located here is the Gold Coast, Ipswich, Logan, Redcliffe City and Toowoomba the second largest inland city in Australia is located 120 km west of Brisbane on the Darling Downs as well as Warwick. Townsville is the largest city in the state's ...
The Gold Coast Highway passes through all the coastal suburbs of the city and is the most direct route to most of the major holiday destinations on the Gold Coast. The Pacific Motorway (M1) interchange is 1.5 km south of the airport just over the NSW border in Tweed Heads West.
Time in Antarctica: Australia: 9: UTC+05:00 – Heard and McDonald Islands UTC+06:30 – Cocos (Keeling) Islands UTC+07:00 – Christmas Island UTC+08:00 – Western Australia, Indian Pacific railway when travelling between Port Augusta, South Australia and Kalgoorlie, Western Australia)
Brandenburger Gold Coast and Prussian Gold Coast (Germans, 1682–1721) British Gold Coast (English, 1821–1957) Ghana is the legal name for the region loosely referred to as the Gold Coast comprising the following four separate parts, which immediately before independence had distinct constitutional positions: [2] the Gold Coast Crown Colony;