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To-do list for Carrara, Queensland: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2016-06-17

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Citing sources : Add sources to the article.
- The Gold Coast City Council provides simple information about Carrara here including book references to its Aboriginal name.
- The book "The Gold Coast Book: An illustrated history" may include some information about Carrara. See link for book.
- The book "Illustrated history of the Gold Coast" may include some information about Carrara. See link for book; available at universities.
- The book "The Surfers Paradise Story" may include some information about Carrara. See for book; available at libraries and universities.
- There are many other books here, here and here.
- Expand : Add details to the article.
- The Surfers Paradise International Raceway was located in Carrara; now the site of Emerald Lakes. There are photos.
- The Pleasure Island Amusement Park operated from 1959-1962 in Carrara (I think). It had trains. There are photos. And here is a YouTube video.
- Keith William's Ski Gardens operated in Carrara (I think). There are photos. The "main" show of (water) skiiers, moved to the spit to an amusement park that was the precursor for Sea World.
- There was a Carrara Airstrip in 1999. See link.
- The original South Coast railway went through Carrara. See link for book.
- The current Gold Coast railway goes through Carrara; there is a bridge constructed.
- There was Carrara State School from atleast 1916 until 1929, then I think maybe two private schools, then now-Emmanuel College?
- The Big Day Out festival was held in Carrara Stadiums in 2014 only. Before that it was at Parklands. After that it was cancelled. See here.
- The Emerald Lakes website calls itself/Carrara the "geographical centre of the Gold Coast". I could calculated it but it'll need to be calculated in an external source to be stated on this article. Cannot find source. Maybe this could help.
- Good article nominations : There are resources available for the article.
- The Sydney and Adelaide suburbs WikiProjects are good resources.
- The featured articles Waterfall Gully, South Australia and Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory are good examples.
- The good articles Summer Hill, New South Wales, St Kilda, South Australia and Mount Osmond, South Australia are good examples.
- The featured article Kent, Ohio has a photomontage in the infobox that is a good example.
- Map : Add map of Carrara, map of Carrara in Gold Coast, map of Gold Coast in Queensland to the infobox. See Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop.
- Photo : Add photos to the article.
- The Gold Coast Library collects photographs (mostly historical). They are available here. It would be good to copy those without copyright over to Wikimedia Commons and contact authors for permission to copy others too.
- The copyright has expired for many images of the Ski Gardens in the Queensland State Archives. See images here. It belongs to this category over at Wiki Commons - [1]