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Fraser Island - a guide to tours 4WD hire and resort accommodation on Fraser
Island.
Fraser Island is the largest sand
island in the world being 125km
long and covering an area of 163,000
hectares, which has developed over a
period of approximately 800,000 years.
The 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.
Its sand comes from the
tablelands of northern New South Wales, washed
into the sea by the big rivers of that area. Strong sea
currents carried it north.
Fraser Island encompasses an amazing variety of
landscapes, long surf beaches, cliffs and gorges in
shades of orange, red, yellow and pure white sand,
dense rainforests, vast, desert-like sandblows,
freshwater lakes perched high up in its dunes,
winding streams, great basalt headlands and salt
pans with eerie mangrove forests.
If sand is the key to how Fraser Island was formed,
then water has been the reason it has become so
special. The island has an abundance of freshwater
in its many lakes and crystal clear creeks and streams.
Pristine clear mirror lakes and the peat-coloured
perched lakes, are some of the largest of their kind
in the world.
Each of the lakes has its own particular character.
Mysterious, moody and beautiful, they are excellent
subjects for photography, great places to see birds,
other fauna and flora and a welcome oasis for the
hot summer days.
Scenic 4WD circuits and walking tracks in the
southern half of the island take in some of the
largest of the lakes including McKenzie, Birrabeen,
Benaroon and Boomanjin.
TOURS
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RESORTS AND ACCOMMODATION
BARGES AND PERMITS
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Getting To Fraser Island:
Brisbane to Hervey Bay
- By Air. (50 minute flight)
- By Road. (3.5 hour drive)
Hervey Bay to Fraser Island
- By Air (20 minute flight)
- By Barge. 45 minute crossing to Moon Point; 50 minute 4WD trip to Fraser Island Retreat. (4WD essential)
Rainbow Beach to Fraser Island
- By Barge. 10 minute crossing
to Inskip Point, 60 minute 4WD
trip to Fraser Island Retreat
(4WD essential)
Vehicle Storage
- Hervey Bay Airport
- Urangan Boat Harbour
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The unique qualities of Fraser Island make it a destination you must see!
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