Burleigh Heads

Burleigh Heads is a suburb in the City of Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. At the 2011 Census, Burleigh Heads had a populace of 9,188. The suburb limit reaches out as far north as Miami Headland, Miami, and as far south as Tallebudgera Creek, Palm Beach. Toward the west, is the township of West Burleigh, with shopping and mechanical regions, and Burleigh Waters, a suburb with a man-made lake, gathering parks and gardens.

The focal point of the area is James Street, which comprises of bistros, shops, beauticians, retailers, physicists, eateries and philanthropy stores. Burleigh Heads' surf break pulls in surfers from the Gold Coast and past. At the headland of Burleigh, privately known as "The Point", grills and cricket matches are held, and onlookers can watch the surfers. On Sunday evenings, neighborhood artists and fire-twirlers regularly turn out to the recreation center close to Burleigh SLSC for a stick and move session.

Indigenous Australians possessed the zone of Burleigh Heads for a large number of years before European settlement. The Indigenous clan were known as the Kombumerri group, who had named the zone 'Jellurgal'. In 1840, James Warner was appointed to overview the coastline close Moreton Bay. Warner named the headlands close Tallebudgera Creek, 'Stout Head' in view of its monstrous appearance. Decades later the name was adjusted to the more respectable spelling of 'Burleigh Heads' and was announced a town hold by the Queensland Government in 1871.