Download coordinates as: Burleigh Waters is a suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

The Gold Coast canal and waterway system network allows access from Burleigh Waters to The Broadwater and the Pacific Ocean.

[9] It was named after Thomas Blacket Stephens, a local landholder who began draining the swamp land in 1861.

Prior to the eastern inland development of the Varsity Lakes area, Burleigh Waters was the southernmost point of the Gold Coast canal and waterway system.

One section, Burleigh Waters Estate was a canal extension developed by Hooker Corporation with partner BMD Group during the late 1970s.

[11] The Hooker Corporation collapsed and Mr Power's BMD Group was paid out at 60c in the dollar a few years later.

[12] Privately built homes were being constructed by the time Pacific Fair opened in 1977[13] and continued with the expansion of the suburb.

As a result of drainage and land reclamation, Stephens Swamp was eventually replaced by a series of man-made lakes that gives the suburb its name.

[17] For decades a local urban myth maintained that sharks were seen as far south in the canal waterways as Burleigh Waters.

88.6% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 0.6% Japanese, 0.6% Spanish, 0.5% German, 0.5% Cantonese, 0.5% Italian.