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Fraser Island - UNESCO World Heritage Site, Queensland, Australia

The largest sand island in the world located along coast of Coral Sea in Great Sandy Marine Park. All Photos are COPYRIGHT and PROPERTY of Rafal K. Komierowski. November 2012

Dingo, Fraser Island....dingoes are reputedly some of the last remaining pure dingoes in Eastern Australia and to prevent cross-breeding, dogs are not allowed on the island...

Entering ferry to Fraser Island...Four-wheel-driving on Fraser Island can be dangerous...Rule No. 1 is...do not drive along the foredunes to avoid the high tides because vehicle can subside in the softer sands because unstable and roll-over causing seriou

The best was to see Fraser Island and the wonderful coast of Seventy-Five Mile Beach is a guided tour... (early morning)

120 kilometres or 75 miles beach runs along most of the east coast of Fraser Island. It is used as a landing strip for planes and an informal highway for vehicles

Seventy-Five Mile Beach is an actual highway that runs up the surf side of the island.... posted with warning signs too !

Lake McKenzie is probably the most visited natural site on Fraser Island ...

Fraser Island also has a variety of freshwater dune lakes which are exceptional in terms of number, diversity and age...

Lake McKenzie, the only area in Australia that has a higher concentration of lakes than Fraser Island is Tasmania

Rainforest plants found on Fraser Island include hoop pine, king fern, tree ferns, strangler figs, blue quandong trees, piccabeen palms and Cyprus pine

Fraser Island is a place of exceptional beauty, with its long uninterrupted white beaches flanked by strikingly coloured sand cliffs

Fraser Island has the best looking trees!

Fraser Island interior...very little sunlight penetrates the canopy thus, species of plants on the floor of the rainforest have adapted to poor light conditions

Shipwreck of SS Maheno ...once an ocean liner belonging to the Union Company of New Zealand

S.S. Maheno was an Edwardian liner on the Tasman Sea crossing between New Zealand and Australia

S.S. Maheno is a spectacular landmark on 75 Mile Beach in Fraser Island

S. Maheno on Fraser Island.....During WWI was hospital ship...in Julky 7th, 1935 lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten

S.S. Maheno on Fraser Island, Great Sandy Marine (National) Park, Australia

S.S. Maheno on Fraser Island, Great Sandy Marine (National) Park, Australia

S.S. Maheno on Fraser Island, Great Sandy Marine (National) Park, Australia

S.S. Maheno on Fraser Island, Great Sandy Marine (National) Park, Australia

S.S. Maheno on Fraser Island, Great Sandy Marine (National) Park, Australia

S.S. Maheno on Fraser Island, Great Sandy Marine (National) Park, Australia

Geological wealth of the island lay in its rich deposits of rutile, ilmenite, zircon... Spectacular sandblows demonstrate the ongoing geological processes for which Fraser Island was given World Heritage status!

Seventy Five Mile Beach highway on Fraser Island is strictly four wheel drive and a landing strip for planes making joy flights.

Ferry leaving Fraser Island (late afternoon) ....then we drive to Rainbow Beach.....

Coral Sea and Fraser Island seen from Rainbow Beach, Queensland

Coral Sea and Fraser Island seen from Rainbow Beach, Queensland

Rainbow Beach is a coastal town perfectly situated between Fraser Island and Noosa, Queensland, Australia