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Nudgee Beach

suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ7068370 ↗
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Nudgee Beach is a suburb and beach in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, Nudgee Beach had a population of 308 people.

Geography

The suburb is 17.9 kilometres (11 mi) north-west of the Brisbane central business district. The suburb is bounded to the north-east by Moreton Bay, to the south-west by Kedron Brook (27.3731°S 153.1065°E / -27.3731; 153.1065 (Kedron Brook)), to the south-west by the Gateway Motorway, and to the north-west by Nundah Creek (27.3357°S 153.0836°E / -27.3357; 153.0836 (Nundah Creek)). Directly to the south is Brisbane Airport.

Nudgee Creek rises in Nudgee to the west and meanders through Nudgee Beach where it enters Moreton Bay at 27.3429°S 153.0941°E / -27.3429; 153.0941 (Nudgee Creek mouth).

There is a small residential area (27.3459°S 153.1026°E / -27.3459; 153.1026 (Nudgee Beach residential area)) in the east of the suburb near the beach (27.3433°S 153.1009°E / -27.3433; 153.1009 (Nudgee Beach (beach))).

There is a Brisbane City Council waste transfer station (known by the council as a resource recovery centre) in the south of the locality (27.3612°S 153.1003°E / -27.3612; 153.1003 (Nudgee Beach Resource Recovery Centre)). The remainder of the locality is mangrove wetlands with the northern part of the suburb being part of the Boondall Wetlands.

There is a network of bike tracks which connect through to Toombul shopping centre.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 1065, 1026, 1009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Nudgee, Beach and suburb can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7068370. Authority coordinates are -27.354, 153.101. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021, 1065, 1026 and 1009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nudgee Beach” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.