Clear Island Waters, Queensland
suburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Clear Island Waters is a suburb of the City of Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Clear Island Waters had a population of 4,395 people.
Geography
The suburb is a residential area surrounding the artificial canals of Clear Island Lake and Boobegan Creek.
History
The area that is now Clear Island Waters was a dairy community in the south and rural wetlands in the north in the early stages of the 20th century.
In 1967, when property developer Bruce Small, who became Gold Coast Mayor later that year, convinced a group of golfers to purchase his 92-acre landholding at Cypress Gardens for $43,240 to build the Surfers Paradise Golf Club.
In 1976, a group of Gold Coast-based Italian families established the Italo-Australian Club on a block of land adjacent to the Surfers Paradise Golf Club and the venture led to an influx of Italian families moving to the suburb. In 1986, St Vincent's Primary School relocated from Surfers Paradise to Clear Island Waters and the Sacred Heart Parish Church was opened next to the primary school after the parish priest Dr Owen Oxenham initiated the move.
The suburb was officially named and bounded on 25 February 1989.
In the early 1990s when approval was gained to build multiple canal estates known as Island Quay, Rhode Island and Santa Cruz.
Demographics
In the 2011 census, Clear Island Waters had a population of 3,986 people, 52.6% female and 47.4% male.
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