Palm Beach, Queensland

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Palm Beach is a suburb of the Gold Coast. The area between Tallebudgera Creek and Currumbin Creek is one with little in the way of natural features to enclose it or to set it apart from other places at the Gold Coast. Certainly subdivided by the mid 1950s the subdivision is unusual in the way in which it straddles both sides of the highway. Streets are named from first to twenty-eighth starting at the southern end of the area and each second one terminates at the highway. Between the beach and the highway in the southern part of the area the narrow Jefferson Lane links across streets. In this lane are some of the earliest and most basic of Gold Coast beach "shacks". There is some suggestion that these in fact predate the subdivision and other remnants of an earlier settlement. Other housing and development in the area is ordinary.

Recent extensions of the Palm Beach area to the west have created new subdivisions with different characteristics including a small section of canal development. The area is bounded to the north by the Tallebudgera Creek and the national recreation camp and to the south by tower developments at the mouth of Currumbin Creek.