The Sir Francis Nicklin Testimonial Swimming Pool
Facilities include a 25m sea water pool with lifeguard supervision during Summer, a wading area, disabled access and a children's spray park (water fountain). The Kings Beach Ocean Pool (also known as the Sir Francis Nicklin Memorial Pool) is located on the rocks at the northern end of Kings Beach, Caloundra.
This commemorates one of Queensland’s Premiers. For more information about this Premier, see his entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography
Click to find location on AllSwims.au
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Historical data and text adapted from All into Ocean Pools Inc (originally published at allintooceanpoolsinc.org, including research contributed by Marie-Louise McDermott), retrieved via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Used under Creative Commons Attribution guidelines.
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