Noosaville, Queensland
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Noosa, Queensland
The Shire of Noosa was a Local Government Area located about north of Brisbane in the Sunshine Coast region of South East Queensland, Australia...
, Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. It includes Lake Weyba
Lake Weyba
Lake Weyba, a large, shallow salt-water lake, is an important fish-breeding habitat. In the early 1900s, Lake Weyba had a large number of stingrays, which would have been easy targets for the spears of the Aboriginal people....
. "Weyba" is believed to mean "place of stingrays" or "place of flying squirrels". Noosaville also contains a development with canals called Noosa Waters. It is a thriving community which includes many holiday apartments, parklands, nature reserves and shopping facilities such as Noosa Civic
Noosa Civic
Noosa Civic is a shopping centre located west of Noosa on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Major stores include Woolworths and Big W and the centre includes over 8,000 square metres of specialty retail stores...
, a major shopping centre which serves the Noosa district.