Isle of Capri, Queensland

Isle of Capri is a neighbourhood within the suburb of Surfers Paradise in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

[1] The area served as a sugar harvest for the nearby Benowa Sugar Mill in the late 1800s and early 1900s[2] before becoming a dairy.

In the 1950s, local Italian-Australian Efim Zola began a canal development project which involved raising unused farmland[3] and renamed the area Isle of Capri after Capri island in Italy.

Future Gold Coast Mayor Sir Bruce Small overtook the project in 1958 and completed unfinished developments.

[4] As of the early 2000s, the Isle of Capri is considered an affluent neighbourhood of the Gold Coast.