Horse taking a daily dip in the modern horse swimming pool, The Palms Horse Stud Farm, Gold Coast, only 10 kms from Surfers Paradise at Nerang
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Nerang is a suburb in Gold Coast City, 10 km west of Surfers Paradise. It was named after the Nerang River which rises in the McPherson Range on the New South Wales border. The river flows north to the Hinze Dam (Advancetown Lake) and then east through coastal wetlands (now canal estates) to the Broadwater at Southport. It is thought that the name derived from an Aboriginal expression describing a little river or a shark.
Michael Jones, Country of fiver rivers: Albert Shire 1788-1988, North Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1988
Robert Longhurst, Nerang Shire: a history to 1949, Nerang, Albert Shire Council, 1994
1875 Nerang State School 2000: 125th anniversary, 2000
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