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Fraser Island accommodation
provides visitors to Fraser Island a variety of accommodation and tour service
options to take in the World Heritage Listed sand island and get the most from
there holiday.
If you need a vacation in a
tropical paradise, Fraser Island is and affordable Island to visit
with a range of Accommodation to suit all budgets . Fraser Island is extremely
fragile. Every visitor to Fraser Island has a responsibility to take care of
this pristine environment. When you take the time to explore Fraser Island, you
will be inspired by its unique beauty and enchanted by the wilderness around
you.
Named after shipwreck
victim Eliza Fraser, the World Heritage listed sub-tropical Fraser Island has an
amazing spectacle of tropical rainforests, pristine lakes, surf beaches, immense
sand blows, cliffs of coloured sands, fresh water streams and vast stretches of
mangroves.
Now listed as a World Heritage
site,
Fraser Island joins the ranks of the Great Barrier Reef, Uluru and Kakadu
National Parks as being of universal significance as the largest coastal dune
system and sand island in the world and for its special environments. As a
precious part of Queensland's natural and cultural heritage, it is protected for
all to appreciate, enjoy and respect.
Fraser Island is part of the
Great Sandy Region, the section of coastline stretching from the north shore of
the Noosa River below Lake Cooroibah and Cooloola National Park, to Sandy Cape
at the northern tip of Fraser Island. About half of Fraser Island is currently
national park. The Great Sandy National Park occupies the northern half of the
island.
The southern half is almost
entirely crown land and state forests, proposed for national park, subject to
resolution of Aboriginal land interests. Fraser Island's forests are one of the
island's most remarkable and controversial features. Though the island was
heavily logged, large stands of satinays and brush box still remain. Pile
Valley, between Central Station and Lake McKenzie, where much of the logging
took place, has the tallest of the towering satinay and brush box.
Fraser
Island's vegetation is not all tall forest. Wallum heathlands occupy much of the
lowlands. They consist of shrublands, scribbly gum trees and wallum banksia.
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