The mascot will be unveieled at a special celebration event due to be held at Burleigh Beach, located in an upmarket suburb in the city renowned for its surf break.

It will be televised live by Channel Seven's Sunrise programme. 

A nationwide competition to design a mascot for Games was launched in June 2015 when people were invited to submit hand-drawn ideas. 

Entries for the competition closed on July 27.

The winner will receive four tickets to the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony, including flights and accommodation.

Whatever is chosen will be joining a family that stretches back to Edmonton 1978 when Keyano, a grizzly bear, became the first Commonwealth Games mascot.

Mascots at previous Commonwealth Games hosted in Australia have been a kangaroo called Matilda at Brisbane 1982 and Karak, a south-eastern Red-tailed Black Cockatoo, at Melbourne 2006.

Other mascots have included a scottie dog at Edinburgh 1986, a Kiwi at Auckland 1990, a killer whale at Victoria 1988, an organg utan at Kuala Lumpur 1998, a cat at Manchester 2002 and a tiger at Delhi 2010.

Glasgow 2014 became the first Commonwealth Games to choose a mascot that was not representative of an animal when they had the hugely popular Clyde, a thistle.