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QHA REVIEW | 24
“Hope Island is a unique place because people get
around in golf buggies and there is very much a
relaxed holiday vibe about it. It’s surrounded by three
of the best golf courses in Australia, both at Sanctuary
Cove and of course The Links, Hope Island.
“Being within a 10-minute drive to all the theme parks
we also find we get people who want to stay at this
end of town because they want to spend a part of their
holiday at the theme parks so they want to stay close
by,” Matt said.
While Hope Island today is a premier and private
gated estate located north of the Gold Coast, history
and archaeological evidence suggests Indigenous
populations inhabited the area about 23,000 years
before European settlement around the 1860s. The
island itself was mainly used for sugar cane growing
and was named after Captain Louis Hope, a colonial
aristocrat who was granted approximately 1,800
acres of land at the mouth of the Coomera River
in recognition of his contribution to the developing
sugar industry in Queensland. By the 1920s access
improved and land auctions paved the way for the
construction of many holiday homes. Population
in Hope Island was minimal until the 1980s when
development started to take place and continued
through the 1990s as large numbers of new dwellings
were added.
Today, an estimated at 11,200 people call Hope
Island home, where they can enjoy coastal living in a
relaxed resort-style atmosphere and take advantage
of the good food, wine and craft beers on offer at The
Boardwalk Tavern.