Hope Island

Hope Island is a suburb of the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Hope Island is a suburb of the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The town of Boykambil is within the suburb (27.8716°S 153.3672°E? / -27.8716; 153.3672? (Boykambil)). The town of Santa Barbara is within the suburb (27.8638°S 153.3458°E? / -27.8638; 153.3458? (Santa Barbara)). At the 2016 Census, Hope Island had a population of 11,186. Hope Island is close to both the Gold Coast beaches and Brisbane city.

The area was named after colonial aristocrat Captain Louis Hope, who was granted approximately 1,800 acres (7.3 km2) of land at the mouth of the Coomera River in recognition of his contribution in developing the sugar industry in Queensland.

After arriving in Moreton Bay in 1848, Hope spent the next 20 years building sugar plantations on the edge of Moreton Bay. The development of a sugar plantation called ‘Rockholm’ on the Island was largely undertaken by the Grimes Family. By the twentieth century, the sugar and arrowroot plantation had passed into the hands of the Sheehan and Davidson families. Hope himself never actually lived in the suburb of Hope Island, preferring to live in Ormiston on the edge of Moreton Bay.