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Overview
The Great Barrier Reef is Queensland's indigo answer to the Red Center. Known as Australia's Blue Outback, the reef isn't a single entity, but instead a maze of 3,000 individual reefs and 900 islands -- most of which are populated exclusively by seabirds and turtles. In 1975, the government …
Overview of Whitsunday Coast and Islands
A day's drive or a 1-hour flight south of Cairns brings you to the dazzling collection of 74 islands known as the Whitsundays. No more than 3 nautical miles separates most of the islands, and altogether they represent countless bays, beaches, dazzling coral reefs, and fishing spots that comprise …
Overview of Townsville and Magnetic Island
346km (215 miles) S of Cairns; 1,371km (850 miles) N of Brisbane With a population of 140,000, Townsville claims to be Australia's largest tropical city. Because of its size, and an economy based on mining, manufacturing, education, and tourism, it is sometimes overlooked as a holiday …
Overview of Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef
With a landscape three times the size of Texas and a population that clings to the coast but embraces the Outback for its icons, Queensland is a sprawling amalgam of stunning scenery, fantastic yarns, and eccentric personalities. Its most famous attraction is the Great Barrier Reef -- by no means …
Overview of Mt. Tamborine
40km (25 miles) NW of Surfers Paradise; 70km (43 miles) S of Brisbane Crafts shops, teahouses, and idyllic vistas are Mt. Tamborine's attractions. The mountaintop is more a plateau than a peak, and it's home to a string of villages, all a mile or two apart -- Eagle Heights, North Tamborine, and Mt. …
Overview of Lamington National Park
70km (43 miles) W of Gold Coast; 115km (71 miles) S of Brisbane Subtropical rainforest, 2,000-year-old, moss-covered Antarctic beech trees, giant strangler figs, and misty mountain air characterize Lamington's high narrow ridges and plunging valleys. Its great stretches of dense …
Overview of Lady Elliot Island
80km (50 miles) NE of Bundaberg The southernmost Great Barrier Reef island, Lady Elliot is a 42-hectare (104-acre) coral cay ringed by a wide shallow lagoon filled with dazzling coral life. Reef walking, snorkeling, and diving are the main reasons people come to this coral cay that's so small you …
Overview of Heron Island
72km (45 miles) NE of Gladstone The difference between Heron and other islands is that once there, you have no need to travel farther to the reef. Step off the beach, and you enter magnificent fields of coral that seem to stretch for miles. And the myriad life-forms that abound here are accessible to …
Overview of Fraser Island
1,547km (959 miles) S of Cairns; 260km (161 miles) N of Brisbane; 15km (9 1/2 miles) E of Hervey Bay The biggest sand island in the world, this 162,000-hectare (400,140-acre) World Heritage-listed island off the central Queensland coast attracts a mix of ecotourists and Aussie fishermen. Fraser …
Overview of Cape Tribulation Area
Port Douglas 67km (42 miles) N of Cairns; Mossman 19km (11 1/2 miles) N of Port Douglas; Daintree 49km (30 miles) N of Port Douglas; Cape Tribulation 34km (21 miles) N of Daintree The tiny fishing village of Port Douglas is the only place in the world where two World Heritage areas -- the Daintree Rain …
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