Currumbin

Currumbin, a residential suburb on the Gold Coast, is 85 km south-east of central Brisbane. It adjoins the south side of the Currumbin Creek which was identified by the surveyor Robert Dixon in 1840 who named it Anson Creek. The re-naming as Currumbin Creek was probably at the behest of the New South Wales Surveyor-General, Thomas Mitchell, who had a preference for Aboriginal names: it is thought that the name is possibly a reference to the kangaroo.