Isle of Capri, Queensland

Isle of Capri is a neighbourhood within the suburb of Surfers Paradise in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.^[1]

Isle of Capri Gold Coast, Queensland
2020
Isle of Capri
Coordinates	28°00′42″S 153°25′28″E
Postcode(s)	4217
LGA(s)	City of Gold Coast
State electorate(s)	Surfers Paradise
Federal division(s)	Moncrieff

History

The area served as a sugar harvest for the nearby Benowa Sugar Mill in the late 1800s and early 1900s^[2] before becoming a dairy. In the 1950s, local Italian-Australian Efim Zola began a canal development project which involved raising unused farmland^[3] and renamed the area Isle of Capri after Capri island in Italy. Future Gold Coast Mayor Sir Bruce Small overtook the project in 1958 and completed unfinished developments.^[4]

As of the early 2000s, the Isle of Capri is considered an affluent neighbourhood of the Gold Coast.^[5]