Carbrook is a suburb of Logan City

Logan City, Queensland

Logan City is a Local Government Area in South East Queensland, Australia. The city is situated between the City of Brisbane to the north and Gold Coast to the south. The city also borders the Scenic Rim, the City of Ipswich and Redland City....

, Queensland

Queensland

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, Australia

Australia

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. Carbrook was previously called Gramzow, a name of German origin. The German name was Anglicised during the First World War.

Cable Ski Park

Carbrook is home to one of three operating cable parks in Australia. Situated next to the Logan River, Cable ski Logan is fun for the first time kneeboarder to the experienced wakeboarder.

Cable Ski Logan

Golf course

The Carbrook Golf Club is located at the edge of a creek that leads into the ocean nearby. More than a dozen bull shark

Bull shark

The bull shark, Carcharhinus leucas, also known as Zambezi shark or unofficially known as Zambi in Africa and Nicaragua shark in Nicaragua, is a shark common worldwide in warm, shallow waters along coasts and in rivers...

s reportedly inhabit a lake at the edge of the golf course, and locals claim that the sharks likely arrived there following a flood in the 1990s.

Recreational Areas and Schools

Carbrook hosts three functioning schools with two of which are private. There is one state school that is functioning and one that is monumental: Old Carbrook State School. A caravan park is ajacent to the cable ski park. (See above). Fishing is favoured in various places by the Logan River. Wirunya hostel in situated in the vicinity.

Notable residents

External links

• University of Queensland: Queensland Places: Carbrook