Great Barrier Reef Travel Guide

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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