Mooloolaba

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Mooloolaba
Mooloolaba Aerial.jpg
View of Mooloolaba
State : AustraliaAustralia Australia
State : Flag of Queensland.svg Queensland
Coordinates : 26 ° 41 ′  S , 153 ° 7 ′  E Coordinates: 26 ° 41 ′  S , 153 ° 7 ′  E
Area : 4.0  km²
Residents : 7,730 (2016)
Population density : 1933 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : AEST (UTC + 10h)
Postal code : 4557
LGA : Sunshine Coast Region
Mooloolaba (Queensland)
Mooloolaba
Mooloolaba

Mooloolaba is a city in southeast Queensland in Australia that had a population of 7,730 in 2016.

geography

Mooloolaba is part of the Sunshine Coast and is located directly on the Coral Sea . Brisbane is 90 kilometers to the south. In the west Mooloolaba is touched by the Sunshine Motorway , as part of State Route 70 , in the south by the Mooloolah River . Air travel is possible from the nearby Sunshine Coast Airport .

history

The name of the place goes back to the indigenous people, the Aborigines , who called the settlement mullu ( red-bellied black otter ) ( Pseudechis porphyriacus ). Sometimes the word mulu with the meaning of the sea fish family of the snapper (Lutjanidae) is assumed to be the namesake. The first settlers from Europe settled in the place in the 1860s. The main livelihoods of the residents were fishing and the timber industry and there was a brisk shipping traffic with timber products to Brisbane. Initially the site was called Mooloolah Heads , but was renamed Mooloolaba in 1920 to differentiate itself from the developing Mooloolah community .

tourism

Due to its particularly attractive location on the coast, Mooloolaba developed into a holiday resort at the beginning of the 20th century and facilities for beach and water sports activities were increasingly being created, including a yacht harbor. In addition, were trekking tours in the nearby parks Mooloolah River National Park or Glass House Mountains National Park organized. Growing popularity among visitors also enjoys the Underwater World called Aquarium and the twenty kilometers away in Beerwah located Australia Zoo , which at times by the adventurer Steve Irwin was headed. Irvin died in 2006 in a diving accident on the coast further north. The Steve Irwin Memorial was erected in his honor in Mooloolaba .

Sports

In the spring of each year the Mooloolaba Triathlon takes place, which was won in 2013 in the women's competition by the German Anne Haug , who also won the Ironman Hawaii in 2019 . Another international sporting event is the Sydney to Mooloolaba Yacht Race .

  • Mooloolaba Beach

  • Fishing boats in the harbor

  • Entrance to the Mooloolaba Aquarium

  • Steve Irwin Memorial

  • mullu , the red-bellied black otter from which it is named

Trivia

Mooloolaba is the fourth city mentioned in the first verse of the original Australian version of the song " I've Been Everywhere ".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics : Mooloolaba ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  2. ^ History

literature

  • John Gladstone Steele, "Aboriginal Pathways: in Southeast Queensland and the Richmond River," University of Queensland Press, 2015

Web links

Commons : Mooloolaba, Queensland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files