Currumbin Wildlife Sancturary - Gold Coast, Queensland
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Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary is a heritage-listed zoological garden on the Southern Gold Coast.
Waymark Code: WM16AAM
Location: Queensland, Australia
Date Posted: 06/13/2022
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Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary was established by beekeeper and floriculturist Alex Griffiths in 1947 as a small-scale tourist venture featuring lorikeet feeding displays in which tourists could participate. By at least 1953 it was known as the Currumbin Bird Sanctuary and by the mid-1950s had become an iconic tourist attraction on the Gold Coast.
The sanctuary is world-renowned for its feeding of huge flocks of free-flying wild rainbow lorikeets, which come to the sanctuary to feast off the special mixture which the lorikeets eat.
The multitude of events, shows and attractions include dingo encounters, free flight bird shows and feeding of the park's massive saltwater crocodile. The park also contains a serious aspect of its work and exhibits, and behind the scenes includes a state-of-the-art veterinary and rehabilitation hospital.
Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register in September 2009
List: National Heritage List
Place ID: 602720
Place File No: Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary
URL database reference: [Web Link]
Status:
Listed Place
Year built: 1947
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