Kings Beach is a suburb of the Sunshine Coast

Sunshine Coast, Queensland

The Sunshine Coast is an urban area in South East Queensland, north of the state capital of Brisbane on the Pacific Ocean coastline. Although it does not have a central business district, by population it ranks as the 10th largest metropolis in Australia and the third largest in...

, Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

, 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...

, located within the Caloundra urban centre directly east of Caloundra CBD

Caloundra (suburb)

Caloundra is a suburb of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, and includes the central business district of the Caloundra urban centre, which is located on Bulcock Street.-Education:Caloundra contains the following schools within its boundaries:...

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Kings Beach was named after the King family, the first residents in the area. After living at Moffat Head in James Moffat’s home for a while, they moved to the Kings Beach area in 1893

Within Kings Beach's boundaries is Wickham Head, a headland off which the hospital ship AHS Centaur

AHS Centaur

Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was a hospital ship which was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland, Australia, on 14 May 1943...

is believed to have been sunk by Japanese submarines in 1943.

External links

• University of Queensland: Queensland Places: Kings Beach