Gold Coast

Colonization

• The Gold Coast (region)
  Gold Coast (region)
  The Gold Coast was the region of West Africa which is now the nation of Ghana. Early uses of the term refer literally to the coast and not the interior. It is not until the 19th century that the term comes to refer to areas that are far from the coast...
  
   in west Africa, which was made up of the following colonies:
  • Gold Coast (British colony)
    Gold Coast (British colony)
    Gold Coast was a British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa that became the independent nation of Ghana in 1957.The first Europeans to arrive at the coast were the Portuguese, in 1471. Upon their arrival, they encountered a variety of African kingdoms some of whom controlled substantial...
    
    , British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa
  • Brandenburger Gold Coast
    Brandenburger Gold Coast
    The Brandenburger Gold Coast, later Prussian Gold Coast, was a part of the Gold Coast that was colonised by Germans before the German unification of 1871.- Brandenburger Gold Coast :...
    
    , former German colony
  • Danish Gold Coast
    Danish Gold Coast
    The Danish Gold Coast was a part of the Gold Coast , which is on the West African Gulf of Guinea...
    
    , former Danish colony
  • Dutch Gold Coast
    Dutch Gold Coast
    The Dutch Gold Coast, or Dutch Guinea, was a portion of coastal West Africa that was gradually colonized by the Dutch beginning in 1598. On February 21, 1871, the British purchased all Dutch Gold Coast Settlements and were incorporated into its Gold Coast colony.Dutch Gold Coast capitals were Fort...
    
    , former Dutch colony
  • Portuguese Gold Coast
    Portuguese Gold Coast
    The Portuguese Gold Coast was a Portuguese colony on the West African Gold Coast on the Gulf of Guinea.-History:The Portuguese established the following settlements on the Gold Coast from January 21, 1482:...
    
    , former Portuguese colony
  • Swedish Gold Coast
    Swedish Gold Coast
    The Swedish Gold Coast was a Swedish colony founded in 1650 on the Gulf of Guinea in present-day Ghana in West Africa. It lasted to April 1663 when the whole Swedish Gold Coast was seized by the Danes, and integrated in the Danish Gold Coast.-Geography:...
    
    , former Swedish colony

Asia

• Hong Kong Gold Coast
  Hong Kong Gold Coast
  Hong Kong Gold Coast is a private housing estate in Castle Peak Road, Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong, developed by Sino Group. It includes 20 residential buildings into two phases , hotel, shopping mall, yacht and country club, marina and beach.-External links:*...
  
  , Castle Peak Bay, New Territories, Hong Kong
• Gold Coast, Tainan, South District, Tainan City, Taiwan
• Sepang Gold Coast, Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia
• Morib Beach Gold Coast, Morib Beach, Selangor, Malaysia

Australia

• Gold Coast, Queensland
  Gold Coast, Queensland
  The Gold Coast is a city in the southeast corner of Queensland, Australia. It is the second most populous city in the state and the sixth most populous city in the country. It is also the most populous non-capital city in the country...
  
  , Australia
  • Gold Coast Parklands
    Gold Coast Parklands
    The Gold Coast Parklands is a non-profit orgainisation which is administered by Queensland State Government appointed Trustees. The complex is a large multi-use facility situated only 5 km from the Southport CBD and covers an area of 38 hectares...
    
    
  • Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens

Europe

• Goldküste, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland — northeast coast of Lake Zurich
  Lake Zurich
  Lake Zurich is a lake in Switzerland, extending southeast of the town of Zürich. It is also known as Lake Zürich and Lake of Zürich. It lies approximately at co-ordinates ....
  
  , from Küsnacht to Stäfa

United States

• Gold Coast (Florida)
  Gold Coast (Florida)
  The Gold Coast is the region of the southeastern coast of the U.S. state of Florida between Palm Beach and Miami. The region consists of the long urban cluster that runs along the eastern shores of Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade County; also called the South Florida metropolitan area...
  
  , United States
• Gold Coast Historic District (Chicago, Illinois)
  Gold Coast Historic District (Chicago, Illinois)
  The Gold Coast Historic District is a historic district in Chicago, Illinois. Part of Chicago's Near North Side community area, it is roughly bounded by North Avenue, Lake Shore Drive, Oak Street, and Clark Street....
  
  , United States
• Gold Coast (Connecticut)
  Gold Coast (Connecticut)
  The Gold Coast is a region of the state of Connecticut, United States that roughly corresponds to the labor market area of the city of Stamford. The area is also sometimes less commonly referred to as "The Golden Ghetto," a pejorative term used to describe the disparity between upper-class and...
  
  , United States
• Gold Coast, Long Island
  North Shore (Long Island)
  The North Shore of Long Island is the area along Long Island's northern coast, bordering Long Island Sound. Traditionally, the region has been the most affluent on Long Island and among the most affluent in the New York metropolitan area, which has earned it the nickname "the Gold Coast." Though...
  
  , New York, United States
• Gold Coast (New Jersey), United States
• Gold Coast, Orange County
  Orange Coast
  The Orange Coast is the string of cities and neighborhoods fronting the Pacific Coast in Orange County, California. The most significant Orange Coast cities from north to south include: Seal Beach, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach, San Juan Capistrano, Dana Point and San Clemente...
  
  , California, United States
• Gold Coast Historic District (Omaha, Nebraska)
  Gold Coast Historic District (Omaha, Nebraska)
  The Gold Coast Historic District is located in Midtown Omaha, Nebraska. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, this historic district covers approximately a 30 block area roughly bounded by 36th, 40th, Jones, and Cuming Streets...
  
  , United States
• Lakewood Gold Coast
  Lakewood Gold Coast
  The Gold Coast is a lakefront neighborhood of the city of Lakewood, Ohio, United States. Visible from downtown Cleveland, the Gold Coast consists of many highrise condo and apartment towers directly along the coasts of Lake Erie. The Gold Coast runs specifically along Edgewater Drive and Lake...
  
  , Ohio

Hydrology

• Gold Coast Broadwater
  Gold Coast Broadwater
  The Gold Coast Broadwater, also known as Southport Broadwater and Gold Coast Harbour, is a large shallow estuary of water reaching from the locality of Southport to the southern section of the World Heritage Listed Moreton Bay along the eastern coast of Australia...
  
  , large shallow estuary of water, eastern Australia
• Gold Coast desalination project
  Gold Coast desalination project
  The Gold Coast desalination project is a water desalination plant that supplies water to the Gold Coast and South East Queensland via the South East Queensland Water Grid, located in Tugun....
  
  , a proposed water source for Queensland, Australia
• Gold Coast Water
  Gold Coast Water
  Gold Coast Water is responsible for the provision of potable and recycled water products and wastewater services throughout the Gold Coast, Queensland with a vision "to create a sustainable waterfuture for the City." Gold Coast Water was established as a Directorate of the Gold Coast City Council...
  
  , water management authority in Queensland, Australia

Literature

• Gold Coast, 1980 novel by Elmore Leonard
  Elmore Leonard
  Elmore John Leonard, Jr. is an American novelist and screenwriter.His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, and Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, several of which have been adapted into successful motion pictures or TV movies.-Biography:Leonard...
  
   (adapted in 1997 as a made for television film)
• The Gold Coast (DeMille novel)
  The Gold Coast (DeMille novel)
  The Gold Coast is a 1990 novel by Nelson DeMille.It is about John Sutter, a Wall Street lawyer, and Frank Bellarosa, a mafia don, and the conflict between the two that occurs when Bellarosa moves to the same New York neighborhood as Sutter. Bellarosa befriends Sutter and his wife, and convinces...
  
  , 1990 novel by Nelson DeMille
• The Gold Coast (book)
  Three Californias Trilogy
  The Three Californias Trilogy consists of three books by Kim Stanley Robinson, that depict three different possible futures of Orange County, California. The three books that make up the trilogy are The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast and Pacific Edge...
  
  , book by Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Gold Coast Bulletin
  The Gold Coast Bulletin
  The Gold Coast Bulletin is a daily newspaper serving Australia's Gold Coast region.It is published as The Gold Coast Bulletin on weekdays and the Weekend Bulletin at weekends....
  
  , the principal daily newspaper of Australia's Gold Coast City.
• Gold Coast Mail
  Gold Coast Mail
  The Gold Coast Mail is a daily newspaper serving Australia's Gold Coast region, owned by the Tweed Newspaper Company.The paper dates back to the Gold Coast Hinterlander, first printed in 1977, which was merged with The Tweed Leader in 1988, to become the Gold Coast Mail, which was first published...
  
  , a newspaper published in Queensland, Australia

Sports

• AFL Gold Coast Juniors, Australian rules football competition that includes clubs from the Gold Coast, Queensland and hinterland
• Gold Coast Blaze
  Gold Coast Blaze
  The Gold Coast Blaze is an Australian basketball team which competes in the National Basketball League . The Blaze competed in their inaugural season in 2007/08. The club is based on the Gold Coast and joins three other NBL clubs competing from Queensland...
  
  , Australian basketball team
• Gold Coast Blue Tongues, Australian ice hockey team
• Gold Coast Breakers
  Gold Coast Breakers
  The Gold Coast Breakers are an Australian rugby union club, based on the Gold Coast, Queensland. The team currently competes in the Queensland Premier Rugby competition, which is a state-club competition...
  
  , Australian rugby union club
• Gold Coast Chargers
  Gold Coast Chargers
  Gold Coast were a professional rugby league football club which played in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership from 1988 to 1994, the Australian Rugby League premiership from 1995 to 1997, and the National Rugby League premiership in 1998...
  
  , rugby league team which played in the NSWRL, the ARL, and the NRL
• Gold Coast Clippers
  Gold Coast Clippers
  The Gold Coast Clippers were a foundation team in the now defunct Australian Baseball League. The Clippers changed their name to the Daikyo Dolphins following the signing of a major sponsorship deal with Daikyo to create one of the strongest teams in ABL history.-External links:*...
  
  , foundation team in the now defunct Australian Baseball League
• Gold Coast Cougars
  Gold Coast Cougars
  The Gold Coast Cougars were the re-branded Daikyo Dolphins after major sponsor Daikyo had to end sponsorship of the team due to financial problems with the Australian arm of the company.-External links:*...
  
  , Australian baseball team
• Gold Coast Football Club, a proposed Australian Football Leagure club in Queensland, Australia
• Gold Coast Marathon
  Gold Coast Marathon
  The Gold Coast Airport Marathon is held on the first Sunday in July each year in Queensland, on Australia's Gold Coast.The race incorporates a full marathon of 42.195km, a half marathon of 21.1km, a 10km run, a community walk and a junior dash over 2.25km and 4km. The race is acclaimed for its high...
  
  , race
• Gold Coast Rollers
  Gold Coast Rollers
  The Gold Coast Rollers were an Australian basketball team, that played in Gold Coast, Queensland, in the National Basketball League. The team was originally named the Gold Coast Cougars before being renamed the Rollers in 1992. The team was one of only two teams from the state of Queensland when it...
  
  , a former Australian basketball team (that was previously known as the Gold Coast Cougars)
• Gold Coast Suns
  Gold Coast Suns
  The Gold Coast Suns were one of the eight original franchises that began play in the Senior Professional Baseball Association in 1989. The club split their home games between Miami and Pompano Beach, FL and hired future Hall of Famer Earl Weaver as manager. In the league's inaugural season, the...
  
  , one of the eight original franchises that began play in the Senior Professional Baseball Association in 1989
• Gold Coast Titans
  Gold Coast Titans
  The Gold Coast Titans lead by captain Scott Prince, are an Australian professional rugby league football team based on the Gold Coast in Queensland...
  
  , the sixteenth team in the National Rugby League
• Gold Coast United FC, A-League team based on the Gold Coast, Australia
• Gold Coast Vikings
  Gold Coast Vikings
  The Gold Coast Vikings were a rugby league team that competed in the Queensland State League and the Queensland Cup competitions. Although originally a representative team, the Vikings became a feeder club for the Gold Coast Chargers National Rugby League team, and were withdrawn from the...
  
  , rugby league team that competed in the Queensland State League and the Queensland Cup competitions
• Tennis Gold Coast
  Tennis Gold Coast
  Tennis Gold Coast is the governing body for the sport of tennis in the Gold Coast, Queensland. The organisation is based in Southport, Queensland in Australia...
  
  , the governing body for the sport of tennis in the Gold Coast, Queensland

Transportation

• Gold Coast Airport
  Gold Coast Airport
  Gold Coast Airport, or Coolangatta Airport, is an Australian domestic and international airport on the Gold Coast and is located some south of Brisbane. The entrance to the airport is situated in the suburb of Bilinga on the Gold Coast. The runway itself straddles 5 suburbs of twin cities across...
  
  , Australian domestic and international airport on the Gold Coast
• Gold Coast Highway
  Gold Coast Highway
  The Gold Coast Highway in Queensland, Australia links the coastal suburbs of the Gold Coast. 33km in length, the highway passes through popular tourist resorts such as Southport, Surfers Paradise, Burleigh Heads and Currumbin...
  
  , Australian highway
• Gold Coast Oceanway
  Gold Coast Oceanway
  The Gold Coast Oceanway is a foreshoreway along beaches in Gold Coast, Queensland. The Gold Coast Oceanway is a shared use pedestrian and cyclist pathway on the Gold Coast connecting the Point Danger lighthouse on the New South Wales and Queensland border to the Gold Coast Seaway...
  
  , shared use pedestrian and cyclist pathway between New South Wales and Queensland, Australia
• Gold Coast railway line, Queensland
  Gold Coast railway line, Queensland
  The Gold Coast railway line is an interurban railway line operated by QR Citytrain in Queensland, Australia, connecting Brisbane with the Gold Coast.-Overview:...
  
  , connects Brisbane with the Queensland Gold Coast in Australia
• Gold Coast Rapid Transit, a proposed rail transportation system for Queensland, Australia
• Gold Coast Seaway
  Gold Coast Seaway
  The Gold Coast Seaway or Southport Seaway is the main navigation entrance from the Pacific Ocean into the Gold Coast Broadwater and southern Moreton Bay and is one of Australia’s most significant coastal engineering projects...
  
  , main shipping channel for the Gold Coast Broadwater in Australia
• Gold Coast Transit
  Gold Coast Transit
  Gold Coast Transit, formerly known as South Coast Area Transit , is a municipal bus operator in western Ventura County, California, serving Ventura, Oxnard, Port Hueneme, Ojai, and the adjoining areas of unincorporated Ventura County....
  
  , a bus operator in California, United States

Other

• Gold Coast ackey
  Gold Coast ackey
  The ackey was a currency issued for the Gold Coast by the British between 1796 and 1818. It was subdivided into 8 takoe and was equal to the British halfcrown, i.e., 1 takoe = 3¾ pence and 1 pound = 8 ackey....
  
  , currency issued for the Gold Coast by the British between 1796 and 1818
• Gold Coast (album)
  Gold Coast (album)
  Gold Coast is a 1958 album by jazz musicians John Coltrane and Wilbur Harden.-Track listing:Track# "Tanganyika Strut" — 10:00# "Dial Africa" — 8:03# "Gold Coast" — 14:33# "B.J...
  
  , by John Coltrane and Wilbur Harden
• Gold Coast Art Centre
  Gold Coast Art Centre
  The Gold Coast Arts Centre is a set of facilities that sits on the banks of the Nerang River in the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. A large jetty makes the Arts Centre accessible by boat. The art centre is also home to the Gold Coast City Art Gallery....
  
  , in Queensland, Australia
• Gold Coast City Art Gallery
  Gold Coast City Art Gallery
  The Gold Coast City Art Gallery is a regional Art museum located at Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. Opened in 1986, the Gallery is funded by the Gold Coast City Council as part of the Gold Coast Art Centre Pty Ltd.- Collection :...
  
  , an art gallery in Queensland, Australia
• Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre
  Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre
  The Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre on the Gold Coast Highway in Broadbeach, Gold Coast was opened on 29 June 2004 at a cost of $167 million and is linked by a covered walkway to Conrad Jupiters.-Features:...
  
  , a building in Queensland, Australia
• Gold Coast Hospital
  Gold Coast Hospital
  Gold Coast Hospital, located on the Gold Coast, Queensland is a major teaching and referral hospital and the third largest in Queensland. The Gold Coast Hospital has one of the busiest emergency departments in the state....
  
  , major teaching and referral hospital in the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
• Gold Coast Hotel and Casino
  Gold Coast Hotel and Casino
  The Gold Coast Hotel & Casino is a hotel and casino located in Las Vegas, Nevada. This locals' casino is owned and operated by Boyd Gaming Corporation. The Gold Coast is located one mile west of the Las Vegas Strip on West Flamingo Road. It is located across the street from the Palms Casino...
  
  , hotel and casino located in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
• United Gold Coast Convention
  United Gold Coast Convention
  The United Gold Coast Convention was a political party whose aim was to bring about Ghanaian independence from British rule after the Second World War....
  
  , a former political party in Ghana

See also

• Côte-d'Or
  Côte-d'Or
  Côte-d'Or is a department in the eastern part of France.- History :Côte-d'Or is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was formed from part of the former province of Burgundy.- Geography :...
  
  
• Costa Daurada
• Gold Coast Historic District
  Gold Coast Historic District
  Gold Coast Historic District can refer to:* Gold Coast Historic District * Gold Coast Historic District * Gold Coast Historic District...
  
  
• Gold Coast Stadium
  Gold Coast Stadium
  Robina Stadium, presently known as its sponsored name Skilled Park, is a rectangular football stadium in the Gold Coast suburb of Robina, Queensland...