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Southport is recognised as the central business district of the City of Gold Coast. It has the city's largest area of office space at 103,818 square metres (1,117,490 sq ft). In the past, Southport was the central entertainment location of the Gold Coast. In current times it is set apart from the normal tourist hub of the Gold Coast.
With the passage of the Local Authorities Act 1902, the entire Southport Division became the Shire of Southport on 31 March 1903. [9] On 12 April 1918, the Shire of Southport became the Town of Southport on 12 Apr 1918. [10] A new town hall was in opened in 1935 and listed on the Queensland Heritage Register in 1998. [11]
The Southport School established. 1902 Pacific Cable Station opened, connecting Australia to North America by telegraph. 1912 St Hilda's School established. 1914 Yatala Pie Shop opens. 1919 The 1918 flu pandemic closes the QLD-NSW border. 1922 Southport War Memorial built. 1925 Opening of the Jubilee Bridge, connecting Elston to Southport.
After climbing nearly two miles, the railway passed through the curved Ernest Junction Tunnel. The station was just past here. The Southport branch continued on to Southport, but the Tweed Heads line continued onwards. Passing the small station of Molendinar, the line passed under the Southport-Nerang Road. The Nerang River bridge was next.
The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history. The Southport Cable Hut (c. 1951) is important in demonstrating the evolution of Queensland's history insofar that it marks the Australian terminal of the Pacific Cable, Australia's second telegraph link with Great Britain and the first to be government ...
The permanent population of the region increased slowly until 1925 when a new coastal road was built between Brisbane and Southport. That same year, Jim Cavill built the Surfers Paradise hotel 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of Southport in an area between the Nerang River and the beach known as Elston, and the real tourism boom began.
Captain Patrick Logan was the first European to discover this southern entrance to Moreton Bay. [6] In the early 1880s the first Southport Pier was opened to the public. On 26 November 1925, the Jubilee Bridge opened to pedestrian and vehicular traffic, [7] becoming the first bridge to be erected in the Broadwater area.
In 1936, the Queensland Government subsidised a loan to the Southport Town Council for the construction of a surf lifesaving clubhouse for Southport. The building cost "in the vicinity of 1,500 Pounds". It was constructed by the contractor A. Ledbury, who worked on the Southport Bathing Pavilion two years earlier.