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Fraser
Island is the largest
sand island in the world, and has been given the ultimate accolade as a
very special environment by being inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Its 163,000 hectares
encompass an amazing variety of landscape: long surf pounded beaches;
vast, desert like sandblows; freshwater lakes; heathlands brilliant with
spring wildflowers; winding streams; great basalt headlands and forest
clad dunes rising to 240 metres, among the highest in the world.
Eurong Beach Resort is 32
km from the southern tip of Fraser Island. In its immediate hinterland
is the most magnificent rainforest on the island, Central Station Forest
Park and Wanggoolba Creek with its crystal clear waters overhung by
palms and ferns, including the ancient Angiopteris fern, a specie more
than 4 million years old.
There too is the famous
circle of the island's unique perched lakes; McKenzie, Jennings,
Birrabeen, Benaroon and Boomanjin, the largest perched lake in the
world. Each of them has its own special atmosphere, dazzling white sandy
beaches and warm, clear waters.
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