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From a Pama-Nyungan language term noosa ("shade, shadows") + the English term heads (“headlands”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Noosa Heads
Today it means: A coastal town and suburb, one of the three major centres of the Shire of Noosa, on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, bounded in part by the Noosa River and the headlands of the Noosa National Park. Full definition →