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About Pacific Paradise

Pacific Paradise is a suburb of Maroochydore in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Pacific Paradise had a population of 2,190 people. == Geography == Pacific Paradise is bounded to the south by the Maroochy River, to the south-west by the Sunshine Motorway, to the north-east by Finland Road, to the north loosely by the North Shore Connection Road.The suburb is part of the Maroochydore urban centre and is located 8.4 kilometres (5.2 mi) by road north of Maroochydore CBD via the Sunshine Motorway.The residential areas are in the north-east of the suburb (26.61810°S 153.0779°E / -26.61810; 153.0779 (Pacific Paradise residential area)) with the remainder of the suburb being undeveloped land, either used for farming or unused because it is marshland. == History == Thousands of years before European occupancy, the north shore of the Maroochy River was the land resource area of the Toombra clan of the Undanbi people. They educated their children in matters relating to sustenance and preservation of culture. Using the natural landscape as a schoolroom, skills and knowledge were acquired by observation and through tutoring by their elders.Europeans commenced to occupy the land from the 1880s but no provisions were made for establishing a school. Selectors among whom were William Harry Baker, William Parsons, Amos Wickerson and William Godfrey purchased Crown land to free range cattle and horses as well as growing citrus crops. In the 1890s two children, Eleanor May and Harry Searle, were born to the Baker family who owned Portion 102V, Parish of Maroochy, County of Canning (the location of Pacific Paradise State School today).Attendance at a school for sixty days in a year had become compulsory in Queensland in 1875. Some of the children in the area in the late 1880s were aged between six and twelve years, but because their parents lived more than 3 miles (4.8 km) from the nearest school, the children were exempted from attending school. However one family, the Peatlings, sent their youngest son Frederick John, 6 miles (9.7 km) to the Diddillibah Provisional School that opened in 1885.