Gold Coast
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Colonization
- The Gold Coast (region)Gold Coast (region)The Gold Coast was the region of West Africa which is now the nation of Ghana. Early uses of the term refer literally to the coast and not the interior. It was not until the 19th century that the term came to refer to areas that are far from the coast...
in west Africa, which was made up of the following colonies:- Gold Coast (British colony)Gold Coast (British colony)The Gold Coast was a British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa that became the independent nation of Ghana in 1957.-Overview:The first Europeans to arrive at the coast were the Portuguese in 1471. They encountered a variety of African kingdoms, some of which controlled substantial...
, British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa - Brandenburger Gold CoastBrandenburger Gold CoastThe Brandenburger Gold Coast, later Prussian Gold Coast, was a part of the Gold Coast. The Brandenburg colony existed from 1682 to 1717.- Brandenburger Gold Coast :...
, former German colony - Danish Gold CoastDanish Gold CoastThe Danish Gold Coast was a part of the Gold Coast , which is on the West African Gulf of Guinea...
, former Danish colony - Dutch Gold CoastDutch Gold CoastThe Dutch Gold Coast or Dutch Guinea, officially Dutch possessions on the Coast of Guinea was a portion of coastal West Africa that was gradually colonized by the Dutch, beginning in 1598...
, former Dutch colony - Portuguese Gold CoastPortuguese Gold CoastThe Portuguese Gold Coast was a Portuguese colony on the West African Gold Coast on the Gulf of Guinea.-History:The Portuguese established the following settlements on the Gold Coast from January 21, 1482:...
, former Portuguese colony - Swedish Gold CoastSwedish Gold CoastThe Swedish Gold Coast was a Swedish colony founded in 1650 on the Gulf of Guinea in present-day Ghana and Togo in West Africa. It lasted to April 1663 when the whole Swedish Gold Coast was seized by the Danes, and integrated in the Danish Gold Coast....
, former Swedish colony
- Gold Coast (British colony)
Asia
- Hong Kong Gold CoastHong Kong Gold CoastHong Kong Gold Coast is a private housing estate served by Castle Peak Road, near Castle Peak Bay, in So Kwun Wat, Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong...
, Castle Peak Bay, Tuen Mun district, New Territories, Hong Kong
Australia
- Gold Coast, QueenslandGold Coast, QueenslandGold 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- Gold Coast City, local government area spanning the Gold Coast and surrounding areas
- Gold Coast Parklands
- Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens
Europe
- Côte-d'OrCôte-d'OrCôte-d'Or is a department in the eastern part of France.- History :Côte-d'Or is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was formed from part of the former province of Burgundy.- Geography :...
, a department in the eastern part of France and a premier wine-growing region - Costa Daurada, a 216 kilometers long coastline located on the coast of Tarragona at Catalonia, Spain
North America
- Gold Coast (Baja California), Mexico
- Ventura County, CaliforniaVentura County, CaliforniaVentura County is a county in the southern part of the U.S. state of California. It is located on California's Pacific coast. It is often referred to as the Gold Coast, and has a reputation of being one of the safest populated places and one of the most affluent places in the country...
, United States - Gold Coast (Connecticut)Gold Coast (Connecticut)The Gold Coast, also known as Southwestern Connecticut or Lower Fairfield County, is a region of the state of Connecticut, United States, that includes the entire southern portion of Fairfield County as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, Super-Public Use Microdata Area Region 09600.This area is...
, United States - Gold Coast (Florida)Gold Coast (Florida)The Gold Coast is the region of the southeastern coast of the U.S. state of Florida between Tequesta and Florida City. The region consists of the long urban cluster that runs along the eastern shores of Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade County; also called the South Florida metropolitan area...
, United States - Gold Coast (New Jersey), United States
- Gold Coast (Washington state)Gold Coast (Washington state)The Gold Coast refers to an affluent area in Seattle's Eastside suburbs. It includes Clyde Hill, Medina, Yarrow Point and Hunts Point. Each of these municipalities ranked in Business Week's 2010 list of most expensive small towns in America. Sometimes Beaux Arts Village is also included with the...
, United States - Gold Coast, Long IslandNorth Shore (Long Island)The North Shore of Long Island is the area along Long Island's northern coast, bordering Long Island Sound. The region has long been the most affluent on Long Island, as well as the most affluent in the New York metropolitan area, which has earned it the nickname "the Gold Coast." Though some...
, New York, United States - Gold Coast Historic District (Chicago, Illinois)Gold Coast Historic District (Chicago, Illinois)The Gold Coast Historic District is a historic district in Chicago, Illinois. Part of Chicago's Near North Side community area, it is roughly bounded by North Avenue, Lake Shore Drive, Oak Street, and Clark Street....
, United States - Gold Coast Historic District (Omaha, Nebraska)Gold Coast Historic District (Omaha, Nebraska)The Gold Coast Historic District is located in Midtown Omaha, Nebraska. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, this historic district covers approximately a 30 block area roughly bounded by 36th, 40th, Jones, and Cuming Streets...
, United States- Old Gold CoastOld Gold CoastOld Gold Coast is the name of a historic district in south Omaha, Nebraska. With South 10th Street as the central artery, the area was home to neighborhoods such as Little Italy and Forest Hill. The area is referred to as "old" because it was replaced in prominence in the late 19th century when a...
, Omaha, Nebraska, United States
- Old Gold Coast
- Lakewood Gold CoastLakewood Gold CoastThe Gold Coast is a lakefront neighborhood of the city of Lakewood, Ohio, United States. Visible from downtown Cleveland, the Gold Coast consists of many highrise condo and apartment towers directly along the coasts of Lake Erie. The Gold Coast runs specifically along Edgewater Drive and Lake...
, Ohio
South America
- Costa de OroCosta de OroCosta de Oro is a 45 km long group of resort towns and beaches in Canelones Department, Uruguay, east of the Ciudad de la Costa. Until 19 October 1994 it also included all the resorts that became henceforth integrated under the name Ciudad de la Costa...
, a 45 km long group of resorts in Canelones DepartmentCanelones DepartmentThe Canelones Department , with an area of and 485,240 inhabitants, is located to the south of Uruguay. Its capital is Canelones.-Geography and climate:...
, UruguayUruguayUruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area... - Ocumare de la Costa de Oro Municipality, one of the 18 municipalities of Aragua StateAragua* Aragua State, Venezuela* Aragua de Maturín* Aragua River* Aragua Municipality, Anzoátegui State, Venezuela* Aragua de Barcelona, Anzoátegui State, Venezuela* Aragua Fútbol Club* Aragua Glass Frog...
, VenezuelaVenezuelaVenezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
Hydrology
- Gold Coast BroadwaterGold Coast BroadwaterThe Gold Coast Broadwater, also known as Southport Broadwater and Gold Coast Harbour, is a large shallow estuary of water reaching from the locality of Southport to the southern section of the World Heritage Listed Moreton Bay along the eastern coast of Australia...
, large shallow estuary of water, eastern Australia - Gold Coast desalination projectGold Coast desalination projectThe Gold Coast desalination project is a reverse osmosis, water desalination plant that supplies water to the Gold Coast and South East Queensland via the South East Queensland Water Grid, located in Tugun....
, a proposed water source for Queensland, Australia - Gold Coast WaterGold Coast WaterAllconnex Water is the water and wastewater business for the Gold Coast, Logan and Redland districts. It was established on 1 July 2010 under the Queensland State Government’s South East Queensland Water Reform...
, water management authority in Queensland, Australia
Literature
- Gold Coast, 1980 novel by Elmore LeonardElmore LeonardElmore John Leonard Jr. , better known as Elmore Leonard, is an American novelist and screenwriter. His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.Among his...
(adapted in 1997 as a made for television film) - The Gold Coast (DeMille novel)The Gold Coast (DeMille novel)The Gold Coast is a 1990 novel by Nelson DeMille.It is about John Sutter, a Wall Street lawyer, and Frank Bellarosa, a mafia don, and the conflict between the two that occurs when Bellarosa moves to the same New York neighborhood as Sutter. Bellarosa befriends Sutter and his wife Susan, and...
, 1990 novel by Nelson DeMille - The Gold Coast (book)Three Californias TrilogyThe Three Californias Trilogy consists of three books by Kim Stanley Robinson, that depict three different possible futures of Orange County, California. The three books that make up the trilogy are The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast and Pacific Edge...
, book by Kim Stanley Robinson - The Gold Coast BulletinThe Gold Coast BulletinThe Gold Coast Bulletin is a daily newspaper serving Australia's Gold Coast region.It is published as The Gold Coast Bulletin on weekdays and the Weekend Bulletin at weekends....
, the principal daily newspaper of Australia's Gold Coast City - Gold Coast MailGold Coast MailThe Gold Coast Mail is a weekly newspaper serving Australia's Gold Coast region, owned by APN News & Media.The paper dates back to the Gold Coast Hinterlander, first printed in 1977, which was merged with The Tweed Leader in 1988, to become the Gold Coast Mail, which was first published on 10...
, a newspaper published in Queensland, Australia
Sports
- Gold Coast BlazeGold Coast BlazeThe Gold Coast Blaze is an Australian professional basketball team which competes in the National Basketball League . The Blaze competed in their inaugural season in 2007/08. The club is based on the Gold Coast and joins two other NBL clubs competing from Queensland...
, Australian basketball team - Gold Coast Blue Tongues, Australian ice hockey team
- Gold Coast BreakersGold Coast BreakersThe Gold Coast Breakers are an Australian rugby union club, based on the Gold Coast, Queensland. The team competes in the Queensland Premier Rugby competition, which is a state-club competition....
, Australian rugby union club - Gold Coast ChargersGold Coast ChargersGold Coast were a professional Rugby league football club which played in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership from 1988 to 1994, the Australian Rugby League premiership from 1995 to 1997, and the National Rugby League premiership in 1998...
, rugby league team which played in the NSWRL, the ARL, and the NRL - Gold Coast ClippersGold Coast ClippersThe Gold Coast Clippers were a foundation team in the now defunct Australian Baseball League. The Clippers changed their name to the Daikyo Dolphins following the signing of a major sponsorship deal with Daikyo to create one of the strongest teams in ABL history.- See also :*Sport in...
, foundation team in the now defunct Australian Baseball League - Gold Coast CougarsGold Coast CougarsThe Gold Coast Cougars were the re-branded Daikyo Dolphins after major sponsor Daikyo had to end sponsorship of the team due to financial problems with the Australian arm of the company.- See also :*Sport in Australia*Australian Baseball...
, Australian baseball team - Gold Coast Football Club, an Australian Rules Football club in Queensland, Australia
- Gold Coast MarathonGold Coast MarathonThe Gold Coast Marathon is an annual marathon race in the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, which was first run in 1979....
, race - Gold Coast RollersGold Coast RollersThe Gold Coast Rollers were an Australian basketball team, that played in Gold Coast, Queensland, in the National Basketball League. The team was originally named the Gold Coast Cougars before being renamed the Rollers in 1992. The team was one of only two teams from the state of Queensland when it...
, a former Australian basketball team (that was previously known as the Gold Coast Cougars) - Gold Coast Suns (baseball), one of the eight original franchises that began play in the Senior Professional Baseball Association in 1989
- Gold Coast TitansGold Coast TitansGold Coast Titans are an Australian professional rugby league football club, based in the Gold Coast, Queensland. The club competes in Australasia's elite rugby league competition, the National Rugby League premiership. It is the newest of the sixteen clubs in the league, having commenced its...
, the sixteenth team in the National Rugby League - Gold Coast United FC, A-League team based on the Gold Coast, Australia
- Gold Coast VikingsGold Coast VikingsThe Gold Coast Vikings were a rugby league team that competed in the Queensland State League and the Queensland Cup competitions. Although originally a representative team, the Vikings became a feeder club for the Gold Coast Chargers National Rugby League team, and were withdrawn from the...
, rugby league team that competed in the Queensland State League and the Queensland Cup competitions - Tennis Gold CoastTennis Gold CoastTennis Gold Coast is the governing body for the sport of tennis in the Gold Coast, Queensland. The organisation is based in Southport, Queensland in Australia...
, the governing body for the sport of tennis in the Gold Coast, Queensland
Transportation
- Gold Coast AirportGold Coast AirportGold Coast Airport, or Coolangatta Airport, is an Australian domestic and international airport on the Gold Coast and is located some south of Brisbane and 25 km south of Surfers Paradise. The entrance to the airport is situated in the suburb of Bilinga on the Gold Coast...
, Australian domestic and international airport on the Gold Coast - Gold Coast HighwayGold Coast HighwayThe Gold Coast Highway in Queensland, Australia links the coastal suburbs of the Gold Coast. 33 km in length, the highway passes through popular tourist resorts such as Southport, Surfers Paradise, Burleigh Heads and Currumbin...
, Australian highway - Gold Coast OceanwayGold Coast OceanwayThe Gold Coast Oceanway is a foreshoreway along beaches in Gold Coast, Queensland. The Gold Coast Oceanway is a shared use pedestrian and cyclist pathway on the Gold Coast, connecting the Point Danger lighthouse on the New South Wales and Queensland border to the Gold Coast Seaway...
, shared use pedestrian and cyclist pathway between New South Wales and Queensland, Australia - Gold Coast railway line, connects Brisbane with the Queensland Gold Coast in Australia
- Gold Coast Rapid Transit, a proposed rail transportation system for Queensland, Australia
- Gold Coast SeawayGold Coast SeawayThe Gold Coast Seaway or Southport Seaway is the main navigation entrance from the Pacific Ocean into the Gold Coast Broadwater and southern Moreton Bay and is one of Australia’s most significant coastal engineering projects...
, main shipping channel for the Gold Coast Broadwater in Australia - Gold Coast (train), a passenger train in the United States
- Gold Coast TransitGold Coast TransitGold Coast Transit, formerly known as South Coast Area Transit , is a municipal bus operator in western Ventura County, California, serving Ventura, Oxnard, Port Hueneme, Ojai, and the adjoining areas of unincorporated Ventura County....
, a bus operator in California, United States
Other
- Gold Coast ackeyGold Coast ackeyThe ackey was a currency issued for the Gold Coast by the British between 1796 and 1818. It was subdivided into 8 takoe and was equal to the British halfcrown, i.e., 1 takoe = 3¾ pence and 1 pound = 8 ackey....
, currency issued for the Gold Coast by the British between 1796 and 1818 - Gold Coast (album)Gold Coast (album)Gold Coast is a 1958 album by jazz musicians John Coltrane and Wilbur Harden.-Track listing:Track# "Tanganyika Strut" — 10:00# "Dial Africa" — 8:03# "Gold Coast" — 14:33# "B.J...
, by John Coltrane and Wilbur Harden - Gold Coast Art CentreGold Coast Art CentreThe Arts Centre Gold Coast is a set of facilities that sits on the banks of the Nerang River in the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. A large jetty makes the Arts Centre accessible by boat...
, in Queensland, Australia - Gold Coast City Art GalleryGold Coast City Art GalleryThe Gold Coast City Art Gallery is a regional Art museum located at Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. Opened in 1986, the Gallery is funded by the Gold Coast City Council as part of the Gold Coast Art Centre Pty Ltd.- Collection :...
, an art gallery in Queensland, Australia - Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition CentreGold Coast Convention and Exhibition CentreThe Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre located on the Gold Coast Highway in Broadbeach, Gold Coast was opened on 29 June 2004 at a cost of $167 million and is linked by a covered walkway to Conrad Jupiters...
, a building in Queensland, Australia - Gold Coast HospitalGold Coast HospitalGold Coast Hospital, located on the Gold Coast, Queensland is a major teaching and referral hospital and the third largest in Queensland. The Gold Coast Hospital has one of the busiest emergency departments in the state...
, major teaching and referral hospital in the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia - Gold Coast Hotel and CasinoGold Coast Hotel and CasinoThe Gold Coast Hotel & Casino is a hotel and casino located in Las Vegas, Nevada. This locals' casino is owned and operated by Boyd Gaming Corporation. The Gold Coast is located one mile west of the Las Vegas Strip on West Flamingo Road. It is located across the street from the Palms Casino...
, hotel and casino located in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States - United Gold Coast ConventionUnited Gold Coast ConventionThe United Gold Coast Convention was a political party whose aim was to bring about Ghanaian independence from British rule after the Second World War....
, a former political party in Ghana
See also
- Côte-d'OrCôte-d'OrCôte-d'Or is a department in the eastern part of France.- History :Côte-d'Or is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was formed from part of the former province of Burgundy.- Geography :...
- Costa Daurada
- Gold Coast Historic District (disambiguation)
- Gold Coast Stadium (disambiguation)