FRASER ISLAND, 200km north of Brisbane along Queensland’s east coast, is the world’s largest sand island at 122km long and up to 25km wide.
Its 400,000 acres are home to eight separate ecosystems.
The mangrove, wallum, and banksia forests of the west, the subtropical rainforest of the interior, freshwater lakes and and the coastal dunes and great beaches to the east, this is a trip through time.
Courtesy of Cody Forest Doucette
Disparate environments
The desolation and stark beauty of Fraser’s eastern dunes exist only a short walk from subtropical rainforest that is teeming with life of every shade of green. One of the reasons such disparate environments exist so close to one another is the vast amount of fresh water hidden beneath the sands. Estimates vary, but it’s believed that the aquifer beneath Fraser contains around 15 million megalitres of fresh water…to put that number in perspective, the iconic Sydney Harbor, in its entirety, contains only 500,000 megalitres.
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Cliff Chapman
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