The Big Beehive

Currumbin, Queensland, Australia

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Recently confirmed · Aug 2026

This Big Thing is recorded as still being here.

A giant beehive-style entrance at Honeyworld in Currumbin, part of the long-running bee and honey attraction beside Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary.

Before you stop

Use designated parking rather than stopping at the entrance.

Parking on site
120 m walk
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Parking
onsite
Wheelchair-accessible route
onsite
Free
onsite
Access hours apply
onsite

Private to your Passport.

PLAN YOUR VISIT

Recommended arrival available

Onsite parking · 120 m walk

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The Big Beehive

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Site-level location · 28.1355° S, 153.4875° E

FIELD GUIDE

The story

Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary began with a beekeeper and his gladioli, which makes a giant beehive next door entirely appropriate.

Alex Griffiths came to Currumbin, became an experienced apiarist and flower grower, and established a garden of gladioli with twelve thousand named varieties flourishing in every colour, with neat rows of white-painted beehives among them. From those beginnings the wildlife sanctuary grew into one of the Gold Coast's principal attractions.

Honeyworld sits beside it – a bee and honey attraction with a giant beehive-style entrance, free to enter, a member of the Queensland National Trust, and open daily.

Its own history is one of consolidation. Superbee Honeyworld opened originally at Tanawha on the Sunshine Coast, with Currumbin following as a second location in 1987. When Tanawha closed in 2008, Currumbin became the only one.

A beehive entrance is a good piece of architecture-as-sign. The stepped dome of a traditional skep is instantly readable, it gives a doorway a natural arch, and walking into a hive to learn about bees is a considerably better introduction than a sign saying so.

Australia has a small cluster of giant bee objects – the Kingscote bee on Kangaroo Island marking the world's only pure Ligurian strain, the Huonville bee on the Huon Highway – and this is the one that is a building rather than an insect.

The hand behind it, its scale and the date are simply not known.

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PRACTICAL

Plan your stop

WHAT TO EXPECT

Honeyworld is free to enter and current National Trust information confirms parking, wheelchair access and daily opening hours.

ACCESS

Use the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary parking area and walk to Honeyworld; do not treat the entrance structure itself as a vehicle destination.

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Sources & research

Brown Signs – Superbee Honey World

Brown Signs · recorded 2026-08-22

Object-specific source identifies entry through the Big Beehive and recommends Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary parking.

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My Rig Adventures – Queensland Big Things checklist

My Rig Adventures · recorded 2026-08-22

Recent specialist checklist independently lists the Big Beehive at Honeyworld, 35 Tomewin Street.

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National Trust Queensland – Honeyworld

National Trust of Australia (Queensland) · recorded 2026-08-22

Current operator page confirms Honeyworld is open, free to enter, wheelchair accessible and has parking.

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What we're still checking

Open-licence image search completed 24 August 2026. No defensible reusable image with file-level commercial-use provenance was verified in the completed Commons, government/open-licence and archival/open-collection sweep.

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