Sandgate
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Located around 20 kilometres north of Brisbane's Central Business District in Turrbul Country, the coastal suburb of Sandgate was named by James Burnett after the seaside town in Kent, which had an army camp — Shorncliffe Camp, reputedly the birthplace of the modern British army (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorncliffe_Army_Camp) — on top of adjacent cliffs. Burnett was evidently struck by the similarity between the Kentish cliffs and the headland at the mouth of Cabbage Tree Creek, which he named Shorncliffe. Predictably, he named the area immediately north of the headland Sandgate.
Sources:
Apple Maps (Location)
Google Maps (Directions and distances: my measurements)
Queensland Place Names Database: Sandgatehttps://www.qld.gov.au/environment/land/title/place-names/queensland-place-names-search (Requires search )
Queensland Places: Sandgate https://queenslandplaces.com.au/sandgate
The Queenslander, 4 May 1901
(Trove: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/21261957
Sandgate: " Many Happy Returns of the Day!", The Queenslander, 4 May 1901 (Trove: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/21261957
Wikipedia: Sandgate, Queensland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandgate,_Queensland
Image: Lower Esplanade at Sandgate, Brisbane. Part of the White Series of postcards.
Copied and digitised from a postcard, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StateLibQld_2_190275_Lower_Esplanade_at_Sandgate,_Brisbane.jpg
