The Mermaid Beach Surf Lifesaving Club is the hub of well to do MERMAID BEACH and Hedges Ave is the Beverly Hills of the Gold Coast as it contains some of the most expensive real estate in Australia. John Oxley, Surveyor General of New South Wales, Robert Stirling, a cartographer and John Uniacke, a colonial officer landed from the cutter ‘Mermaid’ on a Gold Coast beach in 1823 and subsequently on 11th September 1946 the name Mermaid Beach was approved by the Queensland Minister of Lands. Oxley also named the Tweed River further south. Beautiful Mermaid Beach is close to the restaurant precinct at Broadbeach, shops at Surfers Paradise, markets at Carrara Markets as well as challenging golf courses like Emerald Lakes.