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Gold Coast

City of Gold Coast
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About Gold Coast

The City of Gold Coast is the local government area spanning the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, and surrounding areas. It is on the central eastern coast of Australia adjoining the Pacific Ocean. With a population of 606,774, it is the second most populous local government area in the state of Queensland. Its council maintains a staff of over 2,500. The council was established in 1948, and has existed in its present form since 2008. The City of Gold Coast borders New South Wales and Tweed Shire to the south, Scenic Rim to the west, and Logan and Redland to the northwest and north, respectively.

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On the show — 6 mentions total

My favourite waterslide I've ever been on is in the Gold Coast and if you do live in Australia and you haven't been to it, you've got to.

from 374: No Such Thing As Tarzan In A Waterpark, 2021-05-21 at 00:41:46 · read transcript

Other times Gold Coast came up

  1. I think you deserve a polar medal. Thank you. Compare that to having a zippo branded onto your thigh. I think me having to share towels in Australia's Gold Coast was a lot worth with Boris Johnson's dad, we should say for foreign listeners. Just back to Ginny for a second. Before she was doing these adventures with Randolph, she had amazing adventures in her own right.

    390: No Such Thing As The Chronicles of Chelmsford, 2021-09-10 · listen

  2. This was when our, it was classic British colonialism, when the governor of the Gold Coast, as it was at the time, who was called Frederick Hodgson, heard about this golden stool thing and demanded to be allowed to sit on it because he said, you know, the queen is your ruler.

    No Such Thing As Dodecahedral Shredded Wheat, 2015-03-06 · listen

  3. This was when it was classic British colonialism, when the governor of the Gold Coast, as it was at the time, who was called Frederick Hodgson, heard about this golden stool thing and demanded to be allowed to sit on it, because he said, you know, the queen is your ruler.

    51: No Such Thing As Dodecahedral Shredded Wheat, 2015-03-07 · listen

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