Narrow Neck, Queensland

[2] The highway connecting Sydney to Brisbane was constructed at Narrow Neck in 1920 and by 1921 it became necessary to build the Gold Coast's first seawall out of timber.

[citation needed] In 1971 the Dutch University Delft completed a report for the Queensland Government recommending the construction of a groyne at Narrow Neck.

The Gold Coast City Council examined the idea of a groyne and instead constructed an artificial reef to stabilise the foreshore at Narrow Neck.

Its walls were made of needle-punched nonwoven geotextile, which offered much higher damage resistance compared to conventional materials.

[3] In June 2018, renewal works were completed in which 84 additional mega sand containers were place on top of the reef from a split hull barge.