The Nimmel Range is a small
mountain range
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inside the
Gold Coast Hinterland on the
Gold Coast, Queensland
The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the state of Queensland, Australia, approximately south-southeast of the centre of the state capital Brisbane. With a population over 600,000, the Gold Coast is the sixth-largest city in Australia, the nati ...
,
Australia
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. Its most prominent feature is the 489 metre peak of
Mount Nimmel
Mount Nimmel is a small mountain located in Springbrook, part of the Gold Coast hinterland of South East Queensland, Australia. Nimmel is an Australian indigenous word meaning 'Conspicuous Mountain', which is ironic, considering it is very smal ...
. It lies at co-ordinates latitude: , longitude: and is away from
Carrara
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, an inland suburb of the Gold Coast near
Nerang
Nerang is a town and suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In the , Nerang had a population of 16,864 people.
Geography
The Nerang River flows through the locality from south to east, passing through the town. The river u ...
. It was the western border of the
Austinville banana plantation
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Geographic distribution
Banana plants may grow with varying degrees of success in diverse climatic conditions, but
commercial banana p ...
before the settlement was all but abandoned in the 1930s.
Historic Significance
The Nimmel Range was the western border of the Austinville
banana
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plantation started in 1934 and abandoned in 1939. Earlier, in the very early 1900s, before
Springbrook Road
Springbrook Road is a heritage-listed road at Springbrook-Mudgeeraba Road, Springbrook, Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1925 to 1928. It is also known as Memorial Cairn, Springbrook-Mudgeeraba Road, and Toll Road. I ...
was built, early settlers sought to provide access to
Springbrook Mountain from the coast.
Jim Hardy
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High school career
Hardy attended and played high school football at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles.
College care ...
and
George Trapp
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Amateur career
A 6'8" forward/center from Monrovia, California by way of Detroit, Trapp played his senior year of high school basketbal ...
, two pioneers of the day, tried following the ridge that separates the east and west branches of
Little Nerang Creek, reached the join, turned east and found that the Nimmel Range blocked their path.
The road was completed by skirting around the foot of Mount Nimmel and continuing to
Springbrook Springbrook may refer to:
Places Australia
* Springbrook, Queensland
** Springbrook National Park, Queensland
** Springbrook State School, a heritage-listed building in the park
** Springbrook Road, a heritage-listed road
Canada
* Springbrook, ...
. To this day, Springbrook Road remains the sole link from the mountain to the rest of the
Gold Coast
Gold Coast may refer to:
Places Africa
* Gold Coast (region), in West Africa, which was made up of the following colonies, before being established as the independent nation of Ghana:
** Portuguese Gold Coast (Portuguese, 1482–1642)
** Dutch G ...
.
See also
*
List of mountains of Australia
This is a list of mountains in Australia.
Highest points by state and territory
List of mountains in Australia by topographic prominence
This is a list of the top 50 mountains in Australia ranked by topographic prominence. Most of these ...
References
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Mountain ranges of Queensland
Geography of Gold Coast, Queensland