The area served as a sugar harvest for the nearby Benowa Sugar Mill in the late 1800s and early 1900s before becoming a
dairy. In the 1950s, local
Italian-Australian Efim Zola began a canal development project which involved raising unused farmland and renamed the area Isle of Capri after
Capri island in Italy. Future
Gold Coast Mayor Bruce Small took over the project in 1958 and completed unfinished developments. As of the early 2000s, the Isle of Capri is considered an affluent neighbourhood of the
Gold Coast. The original 1960 two lane bridge between the Isle of Capri and Surfers Paradise was replaced by a four lane bridge in 2022. ==References==