page_title: Coolangatta
section_title: Border town
hierarchical_section_title: Coolangatta / History / Border town
caption_attribution_description: Snapper Rocks, Coolangatta Queensland
context_page_description: Coolangatta is a coastal suburb and the southernmost suburb of City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It borders New South Wales. It is named after the schooner Coolangatta which was wrecked there in 1846. At the 2016 census, the suburb recorded a population of 5,948.
  Coolangatta and its immediate neighbouring "Twin Town" Tweed Heads in New South Wales have a shared economy. The Tweed River supports a thriving fishing fleet, and the seafood is a local specialty offered in the restaurants and clubs of the holiday and retirement region on both sides of the state border. The Gold Coast Airport, formerly known as Coolangatta Airport, is located at Coolangatta, with some of the runway going across the border into New South Wales.
context_section_description: As a border town Coolangatta included a customs office, boatshed and government wharf.
caption: Snapper Rocks, a popular surfing and sea-bathing area in Coolangatta
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