Rainbow Bay

Rainbow Bay is a bay, beach and locality at the southern end of Coolangatta within the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

In 1925, the Point Danger Progress Association requested the Coolangatta Town Council to change the name to Rainbow Bay, which the council approved at its meeting on 31 May 1925.

It is believed that this was the name originally given to the bay by Captain Henry John Rous, who surveyed the Point Danger area in 1828 in HMS Rainbow, a sixth-rate frigate.

[1][4][5] In August 1925, the council erected directional signs to Rainbow Bay.

[6] Rainbow Bay is one of the most popular beaches on the Gold Coast.

Rainbow Bay beach with the Gold Coast city skyline in the distance.
View from Greenmount Hill across Rainbow Bay to Snapper Rocks, 2018
View from Greenmount Hill across Rainbow Bay to Snapper Rocks, circa 1950
View from Greenmount Hill across Rainbow Bay to Snapper Rocks, circa 1891