Gold Coast Official spatial — evidence class · Gold Coast · QLD

Pelican Beach

Lawful route — caveats lawful, with something that needs saying first

Gazetted name -27.97590, 153.42357 beach

Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference

Public land. No published track reaches it — the lawful ground to it is a chain of parcels.

Being at this point is lawful on the records below. Getting there is a separate question, answered route by route — and each route carries its own verdict and its own caveats.

What this verdict means · what the evidence grades mean

On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.

What this place is A definition, then the record

A beach — a shore of sand or shingle along the water. The register names the beach and nothing about its ends, so where one stops and the next begins is not a line this site can draw — and nothing here records the tide, which is what decides whether a beach is a walk or a swim.

No watercourse the register names runs within range of Pelican Beach. The layer maps far more creeks than it has ever named, so that is a gap in the record rather than dry ground.

The point falls outside every protected-area estate in the snapshot.

The point falls outside every World Heritage property the state maps.

The rock at the surface is unconsolidated sediment, mapped as Qhm-QLD (Qhm) , holocene in age. The survey describes it as: Sand, muddy sand, sandy mud, mud; undivided modern marine sediments Official spatial — evidence class

The remnant vegetation mapping records no ecosystem over this point. That covers remnant vegetation only, so it is what the register says about ground that has been cleared, or is water, sand or rock — not a statement that nothing grows here.

On the record — what the registers actually say Sources, licences and dataset versions

What each register holds about this place
Claim	What the record says	Evidence
Name	"Pelican Beach" is a gazetted register entry.	Gazetted — evidence class
Tenure	Resolved to Watercourse bed, recorded as "Watercourse".	Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel	2896681	Official spatial — evidence class
Council area	This place sits inside Gold Coast, tested against the boundary that council area publishes.	Official spatial — evidence class
Estate	This point falls outside every protected-area estate polygon in the snapshot.	—
Watercourse	No named watercourse in the snapshot runs within range of this point. The layer maps many creeks it has never named.	—
Feature	Recorded as a beach in the source layer; no terrain rule was needed to find it.	Official spatial — evidence class

Where it is

Map

Map of Pelican Beach and the starts of the 8 published approaches to it, over the parcels, corridors, estate and tracks around them.

Every figure the map would draw — parcel references, distances, bearings and the crossing gap — is written out in full on this page, so nothing is only visible on the map. If the map does not load, nothing has been lost.

Is there a track to it No published way within range

No vetted way the managing authority publishes comes within range of this point. That is a fact about the access record, not about the ground: an unmapped pad may well exist, and this site will not invent one on the strength of that.

Approaches — one page each 8 published of 167 computed

167 ways in were computed and 8 are published here. The rest either reach the same ground from a few hundred metres away — the same drive and the same walk — or reach no lawful chain at all, which is only worth saying when nothing else does.