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Whitehaven Beach. Whitehaven Beach is on Whitsunday Island, Queensland, Australia. The island is accessible by boat, seaplane & helicopter from Airlie Beach, as well as Hamilton Island. It lies across from Stockyard Beach, better known as Chalkie's Beach, on Haslewood Island. The seven kilometres beach is known for its crystal white silica ...
Whitsunday Island was inhabited by the sea-faring Ngaro people for around 8,000 years prior to British colonisation. Captain Cook named the island while sailing through the area in June 1770. [1] The first of the logging camps on the island was set up by Eugene Fitzalan in 1861 to exploit the large hoop pine for construction of buildings at the ...
Whitehaven. Whitehaven is a town and port on the English north west coast and near to the Lake District National Park in Cumberland, Cumbria, England. It lies by road 38 miles (61 km) south-west of Carlisle and 45 miles (72 km) to the north of Barrow-in-Furness. It was the administrative seat of the former Borough of Copeland, and has a town ...
170 km 2 (65.6 sq mi) Managing authorities. Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service. Website. Whitsunday Islands National Park. See also. Protected areas of Queensland. Whitsunday Islands is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 920 kilometres (570 mi) northwest of Brisbane. It contains Whitsunday Island and 31 others.
5.551/km 2 (14.377/sq mi) The Whitsunday Islands are 74 continental islands of various sizes off the central coast of Queensland, Australia, 900 kilometres (560 miles) north of Brisbane. [ 1 ] The northernmost of the islands are off the coast by the town of Bowen, while the southernmost islands are off the coast by Proserpine.
Whitehaven Beach is a 6km stretch along the Whitsunday Island. Its sand consists of 98% pure silica. All of the Whitsunday island's sand is made up of coral from the Great Barrier Reef. Something is really wrong here. Corals are made of calcium carbonate, not silica. One of these statements has to be wrong. Siim 20:08, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
During Hamilton Island Race Week, Hamilton Island hosts a large number of social events for men and women of all ages. The most famous event is the Whitehaven Beach Party where boats from all over the Whitsunday region converge on the white sands of Whitehaven beach to drink, eat, and dance to celebrate the end of race week.
Coordinates: 20°16′41″S 149°04′34″E. Chalkie's Beach. Chalkie's Beach (also known as Stockyard Beach) is located on the western coast of Haslewood Island in the Whitsunday Islands of Queensland, Australia. [ 1] It lies across from the more popular Whitehaven Beach on the main Whitsunday Island.