Sunshine Beach, Queensland


Sunshine Beach is a coastal suburb in Noosa Heads in the Shire of Noosa, Queensland, Australia. At the, the suburb recorded a population of 2,460.

History

The area south of Noosa Headlands was formerly known as Golden Beach but was rarely visited before the 1920s. In 1928, Thomas Marcus Burke gained land there in exchange for building roads and bridges from Tewantin. After World War II it was marketed by his son, Marcus, as Sunshine Beach.
Although currently and historically within the Shire of Noosa, between 2008 and 2013 the entire Shire of Noosa including Sunshine Beach was within the Sunshine Coast Region.
At the, the suburb recorded a population of 2,460.

Amenities

Sunshine Beach is home to the Sunshine Beach Surf Lifesaving Club from which volunteers patrol the beach every weekend from September school holidays to ANZAC Day.

Education

Sunshine Beach includes two public schools; Sunshine Beach State School and Sunshine Beach State High School.
Saint Thomas More Primary School is a Roman Catholic Primary School that was established in 1990 by The Noosa District Roman Catholic Parish and is staffed by the Brisbane Catholic Education Centre. It is a Marist school.