The Gold Coast Seaway or Southport Seaway is the main navigation entrance from the Pacific Ocean into the Gold Coast Broadwater and southern Moreton Bay and is one of Australia’s most significant coastal engineering projects. The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth 's Oceanic divisions The Gold Coast Broadwater, also known as Southport Broadwater and Gold Coast Harbour, is a large shallow Estuary of water reaching from the locality Moreton Bay is a large bay on the eastern coast of Australia 19 km from Brisbane, Queensland. It is located at the northern end of the Southport Spit. The Southport Spit (also referred to as The Spit) lies opposite Southport to the north of Main Beach, Gold Coast. The Southport Bar had been a very dangerous entrance until 1986 when the Gold Coast Seaway was constructed. Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) There are now two rock walls to stablise the position of the entrance and also the world's first permanent sand bypassing system.
It is a popular diving and fishing location and also many surfers and body boarders regularly paddle across the seaway on their boards from the mainland to South Stradbroke Island. South Stradbroke Island is an Australian island in the state of Queensland, south of Brisbane and forms the northern end of Gold Coast. Popular suring sites include the Sandpumping Jetty on the mainland and the sandpumping outlets on South Stradbroke Island known as TOS (The other side).
The sand pumping system currently delivers all sand that arrives at the Gold Coast Seaway across the entrance and into the World Heritage listed Moreton Bay Marine Park. A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site (such as a Forest, Mountain, Lake, Desert, Monument, Building, complex The Gold Coast Shoreline Management Plan is reviewing this practice and examining the concept of Island Welding to determine if 16% of the sand (80,000 cubic meters per year) can be sustainably recycled to Surfers Paradise. The Gold Coast Shoreline Management Plan (GCSMP is an ICZM plan to manage the coastal resources of Gold Coast City Surfers Paradise ( is a town on Australia 's Gold Coast in Queensland.
The southern training wall of the Gold Coast Seaway is the northern end of the Gold Coast Oceanway. In some jurisdictions the terms sea defense and coastal protection are used to mean respectively defence against flooding and erosion The Gold Coast Oceanway is a Foreshoreway along Gold Coast beaches
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- Sand Bypass System
- Save Our Spit Diving Footage and info
- Diving the Gold Coast Seaway
- Gold Coast Shoreline Management Plan
- Seaway Surf Cameras
- Moreton Bay Marine Park
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