Bundjalung Country map
Where Bundjalung Country runs, why no single map is official, and who holds the boundaries.
Tweed River mouth
Tweed Heads
Tweed Heads sits on the NSW side of the Tweed River mouth, right on the Queensland border. It's the largest population centre in Bundjalung Country and a natural hub for community email and web hosting requests from across the Tweed.
About Tweed Heads
Tweed Heads, Tweed Heads South, Tweed Heads West, and Banora Point form one continuous urban area with Coolangatta and Kirra just across the border in Queensland — most people driving through barely notice the state line. At the 2021 Census, the New South Wales side of that connected urban area (the ABS's "Tweed Heads part" of the Gold Coast–Tweed Heads urban centre) recorded around 63,700 residents (63,697 people), making it comfortably the biggest urban centre anywhere in Bundjalung Country, ahead of Lismore and Ballina.
The border itself is marked at Point Danger, where a headland lighthouse was jointly built by Tweed Shire and Gold Coast City councils in 1971 as a Captain Cook bicentenary memorial — it incorporates ballast salvaged from the Endeavour and was notably the first lighthouse to trial laser lighting technology. Inland, the town looks out toward Wollumbin (Mount Warning) and the caldera country that shapes so much of the Tweed.
This part of the Tweed River is Bundjalung Country, and specifically the country of Bundjalung-speaking clans of the lower Tweed including the Minjungbal people. Tweed Heads is not a land council, native title body, or cultural authority — for matters of language, cultural protocol, or family and country connections, the appropriate contacts are local Bundjalung organisations and the native title bodies covering the Tweed.
Learn locally
Visit the Minjungbal Aboriginal Cultural Centre in Tweed Heads South, run by the area’s Aboriginal community; its tours explain the significance of the bora ring, which can be seen from the Walk on Water track. For local land council matters, contact the Tweed Byron Local Aboriginal Land Council.
Keep learning about Bundjalung Country
Clans and groups
Arakwal, Githabul, Bandjalang, Widjabal, Nyangbal, Yugambeh and the other names you will meet.
Bundjalung language
Dialects, why spellings differ, and the language centres that actually teach and publish.
Place names
Which Northern Rivers town names come from Bundjalung language, and which came from Britain.
Bundjalung National Park
The coastal park between Iluka and Evans Head, its campgrounds, and the Iluka rainforest.
History: reserves and land rights
The Protection Board years, the reserves and stations, and where to look for family records.
Parks, sacred places and walks
Jointly managed parks, places custodians ask you to treat with care, and Aboriginal-led walks.
Also on this site
Community email and web hosting
Email for Tweed Heads residents
A name@bundjalung.au address works the same in Tweed Heads as anywhere else in the community — handy for keeping a stable contact point if you move between the Tweed, greater Lismore, or the Gold Coast side of the border.
A free static site
Local services, tutors, tradespeople, artists, and small projects based in Tweed Heads can get a simple static page live under name.bundjalung.au at no cost once identity checks are complete.
Bundjalung artists, makers, and business owners in Tweed Heads: this page does not publish a directory of local people or businesses without their say-so. If you're a Bundjalung artist, maker, or business owner based in or around Tweed Heads and would like a page, portfolio link, or listing here — with a link back to your own site or socials — use the contact form below or email info@bundjalung.au and mention Tweed Heads. Nothing about you goes on this page unless you ask for it.