Download coordinates as: Main Beach (originally Southport East) is a coastal town and suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Narrow Neck formed the southern boundary and to the north was a long sand spit terminated by the bar between the Broadwater and the sea.

This created a natural basin for boats at the mouth of the river protected from the sea by the Main Beach area.

Some evidence remains of the area's early popularity as a surfing beach in the beachfront planting and the kiosk and shelter shed from 1934.

In the 1950s, reclamation of the Nerang River to the west of the earlier subdivision created the area centred on Tedder Avenue.

Similarly the land to the north of the early subdivision – the sand spit that formed one bank of the bar – was only recently developed.

Main Beach property has developed as a high rise area only relatively recently and is focused on the eTedder Avenue which features restaurants, cafes, and boutiques.

Some local residents would like a new Oceanway pavement constructed along the road reserve between the beachfront houses and the dune area.

A large number of Norfolk Island Pines (Araucaria heterophylla), a conifer that is not native to the area, have been planted on the Main Beach foreshore.