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frazer island
The total area of the island 1,655 km²
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History/ culture values
More than 354 species of birds have been sighted on Fraser Island. The island has a wide range of habitats providing different food sources, nesting and breeding areas. Fraser Island is home to 79 species of reptiles, including 19 kinds of snake.
Fraser Island is a World Heritage-listed island along the south-eastern coast in the Wide Bay–Burnett region, Queensland, Australia.
The island was created over hundreds of thousands of years from sand drifting off the east coast of mainland Australia.
Fraser Island took more than 800,000 years to develop. In fact, its sand dunes are still developing.
location
Australia
K'gari (Fraser Island) lies just off the east coast of Australia. At 122 km long, it is the largest sand island in the world.
Fraser Island, also called Great Sandy Island, island off the southeastern coast of Queensland, Australia, separated from the mainland and the port of Maryborough by Hervey Bay and Great Sandy Strait. About 75 miles (120 km) long and 15 miles (25 km) at its widest point, it is the largest sand island in the world.
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Geomophic processes
These sand islands reach from South Stradbroke Island, off the Gold Coast, to Fraser Island, just to the south of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Fraser Island has been formed over hundreds of thousands of years as winds, waves and ocean currents have carried sands from the far south-east of Australia
About 700 million years ago Antarctica had mountain ranges that rival the modern-day Himalayas. These mountain ranges were eroded with the resulting sands being accumulated on the continental shelf where Fraser Island now lies.
manegment
One of the survivors was Eliza Fraser, wife of the ship's captain, after whom Europeans named the island. Day-to-day management of K'gari (Fraser Island) is the responsibility of the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
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