The Isle of Capri is a neighbourhood within the suburb of

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in the

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, Australia.

History

The area served as a sugar harvest for the nearby Benowa Sugar Mill in the late 1800s and early 1900s before becoming a

dairy A dairy is a place where milk is stored and where butter, cheese, and other dairy products are made, or a place where those products are sold. It may be a room, a building, or a larger establishment. In the United States, the word may also des ...

. In the 1950s, local Italian-Australian Efim Zola began a canal development project which involved raising unused farmland and renamed the area Isle of Capri after

Capri Capri ( , ; ) is an island located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrento Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region of Italy. A popular resort destination since the time of the Roman Republic, its natural beauty ...

island in Italy. Future Gold Coast Mayor Bruce Small took over the project in 1958 and completed unfinished developments. As of the early 2000s, the Isle of Capri is considered an affluent neighbourhood of the Gold Coast. The original 1960 two lane bridge between the Isle of Capri and Surfers Paradise was replaced by a four lane bridge in 2022.Isle of Capri Bridge
Georgiou Group

References

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