Nerang River

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Nerang River
Origin	Lamington Plateau
Mouth	Gold Coast Broadwater
Basin countries	Australia

The Nerang River is a river through Gold Coast City in south-eastern Queensland. It starts in the Lamington Plateau on the New South Wales border and heads north, then east where it flows through Nerang and onto the Gold Coast Broadwater at Southport on the Gold Coast.

1 Name
2 Dams
3 Surfers Riverwalk
4 Boatramps
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Name

The river was initially named the River Barrow by government surveyor Robert Dixon when he charted the Gold Coast in 1840, after Sir John Barrow, Secretary of the Admiralty.^[1] The surveyor general Thomas Mitchell later changed many places to Aboriginal names, and this included giving the Nerang River its present name. Neerang is a Yugambeh word meaning "little shark" or "shovel-nosed shark". But the local aboriginal people in fact called the river Mogumbin or Been-goor-abee. And the peoples of the Tweed called it Talgai.

[edit] Dams

On the Nerang river is the Hinze Dam, creating Advancetown Lake, the Gold Coast's main water supply. An older dam, higher up in the catchment and now called the Little Nerang Dam was an earlier water supply for the Gold Coast, Queensland. The dams are managed by Gold Coast Water

[edit] Surfers Riverwalk

The Gold Coast City Council is considering investing into the quality and capacity of the Surfers Riverwalk. The route would connect the Gold Coast Highway Bridge crossing of the Nerang River at Main Beach to Pacific Fair Shopping Centre at Broadbeach, Queensland. The route includes

The western facing beaches of Main Beach
The anabranch foreshores of McIntosh Island.
Jaraparilla Cove
The Marriott Hotel boardwalk
Budds Beach
Surfers Central Riverwalk^[2] from Budds Beach to Lionel Perry Park
The Paradise Island anabranch
Cannes Avenue Reach of the Nerang River
Cascade Gardens foreshores of Little Tallebudgera Creek
Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre boardwalk
Jupiters Casino Island foreshores
Pacific Fair Shopping Centre

[edit] Boatramps

Nerang River Boatramps open to the public are located at Waterways Drive at Main Beach, Budds Beach, Evandale, on the Isle of Capri, TE Peters Drive at Broadbeach Waters (Convention Centre), Carrara Road, Carrara and at the Nerang River Parklands.