Caloundra

Caloundra ( /kəˈlaʊndrə/) is the southernmost community on the Sunshine Coast in South East Queensland, Australia, located 90 kilometres (55.9 mi) north of Brisbane CBD. Caloundra is accessible from Landsborough Railway Station and the Caloundra bus station. In the local Aboriginal dialect, 'Kalowendah' translates as 'Place of the Beech Trees'. In 1875, Robert Bulcock, an English immigrant who founded a Brisbane newspaper and later represented the Brisbane suburb of Enoggera in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1885 until 1888, bought 277 acres (1.12 km) of land in the region. A town was surveyed in the 1870s, and land sales commenced in 1883. With its proximity to beaches, the area became popular with tourists and a number of...