Tourist attraction
Streets Beach
Artificial white-sand lagoon beach in a city park, patrolled by lifeguards with free entry.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Streets Beach at South Bank in Brisbane traces the unlikely story behind its name, from the swimming lagoon's roots in the nineteen ninety-two redevelopment of the World Expo eighty-eight site to the corporate sponsors who have paid for it ever since. You'll hear about the camera company that named it first, and the ice cream maker that renamed it later. Stand on the sand and think about what a beach costs to keep, in a city with no coastline of its own.
This audio guide was created using AI.