Isle of Capri, Queensland

The area served as a sugar harvest for the nearby Benowa Sugar Mill in the late 1800s and early 1900s^[2] before becoming a dairy. In the 1950s, local Italian-Australian Efim Zola began a canal development project which involved raising unused farmland^[3] and renamed the area Isle of Capri after Capri island in Italy. Future Gold Coast Mayor Bruce Small took over the project in 1958 and completed unfinished developments.^[4]

As of the early 2000s, the Isle of Capri is considered an affluent neighbourhood of the Gold Coast.^[5]

The original 1960 two lane bridge between the Isle of Capri and Surfers Paradise was replaced by a four lane bridge in 2022.^[6]