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Isle of Capri, Queensland
Suburb of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Isle of Capri is a neighbourhood within the suburb of Surfers Paradise in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.[1]
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History
The area served as a sugar harvest for the nearby Benowa Sugar Mill in the late 1800s and early 1900s[2] before becoming a dairy. In the 1950s, local Italian-Australian Efim Zola began a canal development project which involved raising unused farmland[3] and renamed the area Isle of Capri after Capri island in Italy. Future Gold Coast Mayor Bruce Small took over the project in 1958 and completed unfinished developments.[4]
As of the early 2000s, the Isle of Capri is considered an affluent neighbourhood of the Gold Coast.[5]
The original 1960 two lane bridge between the Isle of Capri and Surfers Paradise was replaced by a four lane bridge in 2022.[6]
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