Yaroomba
- Local Government Area
- Sunshine Coast
- Postcode
- 4573
- Population
- 2,043
- Area
- 2.59 km²
- Coordinates
- -26.5528, 153.0930
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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About Yaroomba
Yaroomba is a coastal suburb in the Sunshine Coast Region of Queensland, located 3.1 kilometres south of Coolum Beach and 116 kilometres north of Brisbane. The suburb began as a housing estate named Coronation Beach in 1953 in honour of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, and the name was changed to Yaroomba, a Kabi word meaning surf on the beach, in 1961. The eastern boundary is the Coral Sea featuring Yaroomba Beach, a long strip of sand, and the land rises from sea level in the east to approximately 40 metres in the west. The Palmer Coolum Resort and Golf Course occupies about half the suburb with 150 hectares. In 2007 a 200-kilogram piece of hardwood ribbing from the shipwrecked Kirkdale was found on the beach, a twin-masted 251-tonne sailing ship that ran aground off Yaroomba Beach on 19 July 1862.
Nearby localities
- Point Arkwright 1 km
- Mount Coolum 2 km
- Coolum Beach 3 km
- Marcoola 5 km
- Peregian Springs 7 km
- Yandina Creek 7 km