Cavill Avenue is a street

Street

A street is a paved public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, but is more often paved with a hard, durable...

 in Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Queensland

Gold Coast, Queensland

Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. It is in the heart of the Surfers Paradise shopping and entertainment district. Between the Surfers Paradise Beach and Orchid Avenue it is a pedestrian mall

Pedestrian mall

Pedestrian malls in the United States are also known as pedestrian streets and are the most common form of pedestrian zone in large cities in the United States. It is a street lined with storefronts and closed off to most automobile traffic...

. It was named in honour of the founder of Surfers Paradise, James Cavill

James Cavill

James Freeman 'Jim' Cavill, a Brisbane hotelier, was one of the pioneers of the Gold Coast, Australia. His parents were Frederick Cavill , a champion swimmer, and Maria Rhodes a cousin of Cecil Rhodes....

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The Centro Surfers Paradise

Centro Surfers Paradise

Centro Surfers Paradise is a major shopping centre located in Surfers Paradise, Queensland on the Gold Coast. It is located in the major tourist district on Cavill Avenue and has many stores selling a variety of goods.- History :...

 is a major shopping centre on Cavill Avenue. The Circle on Cavill

Circle on Cavill

Circle on Cavill is a $551 million commercial development with two ultra-modern residential towers built by the Sunland Group and dramatically positioned in a key city block right in the heart of the Surfers Paradise CBD, neighbouring with Towers of Chevron Renaissance shopping mall and resort...

 is located at the Nerang River

Nerang River

The Nerang River is a river that begins in the McPherson Range in the Gold Coast hinterland and runs through Gold Coast City in South East Queensland, Australia...

 end of the road. Soul

Soul (building)

Soul is a tall residential tower under construction on the corner of Cavill Avenue and The Esplanade in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. When constructed, it will overtake Circle on Cavill as the second tallest building on the Gold Coast, behind Q1...

 is a 243 m tall skyscraper under construction on the southern side at the beach end of Cavill Avenue.

The mall is the centre of the annual Schoolies

Schoolies week

Schoolies or schoolies week refers to the Australian tradition of high-school graduates having week-long holidays following the end of their final exams in late November and early December."Toolies" refers to older revelers who participate in Schoolies week but are...

celebrations.