Eagle Heights is a town within the
locality
Locality may refer to:
* Locality, a historical named location or place in Canada
* Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England
* Locality (linguistics)
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of
Tamborine Mountain
Tamborine Mountain, also known simply as Mount Tamborine, is a plateau, geographic subregion and locality in the Scenic Rim Region of Queensland, Australia. In the , Tamborine Mountain had a population of 8,105 people.
Geography
The plate ...
in
South East Queensland
Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...
, Australia.
History
The town is home to the
Gold Coast hinterland
The Gold Coast hinterland is an area of South East Queensland, Australia that comprises the Tweed Range, Nimmel Range, Tamborine Mountain, Numinbah Valley, eastern parts of the McPherson Range and western parts of suburban Gold Coast, Queens ...
's oldest remaining church. The St Andrew's Wesleyan Church on Long Road was built in 1880.
Eagle Heights Post Office opened on 1 July 1927 (a
receiving office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional serv ...
had been open from 1926).
Formerly a suburb in its own right, in 1997, Eagle Heights was merged with other former suburbs
North Tamborine and
Mount Tamborine to create the larger
locality
Locality may refer to:
* Locality, a historical named location or place in Canada
* Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England
* Locality (linguistics)
* Locality (settlement)
* Suburbs and localitie ...
of Tamborine Mountain.
At the
2006 census, Eagle Heights had a population of 2,702.
See also
*
Tamborine National Park
Tamborine National Park is a protected area split between the City of Gold Coast and the Scenic Rim Region in South East Queensland, Australia, by road south of Brisbane.
It covers on the plateau of Tamborine Mountain and around its foothills ...
References
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Towns in Queensland
Tamborine Mountain
Scenic Rim Region