Shipwreck

Fraser Island, Brisbane and Surfers Paradise

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February 25th 2008
We left the caves on Friday morning and drove down to the Fraser Island ferry port. The weather was gorgeous again and our crossing was in brilliant sunshine. Fraser Island is the world's largest sand island and has an amazing variety of environments - there are five distinct types of landscape (subtropical rainforest, heathland etc) and if you wanted to see them all on mainland Australia you'd ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Surfers Paradise

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more