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Bedarra Island is approximately seven kilometres off the tropical North Queensland coast, midway between Townsville and Cairns, the nearest coastal town being Mission Beach. It is in the middle of Family Islands National Park. The granite island was part of the mainland before the last sea level rise began 8,000 years ago.
The organisation "Tourism and Events Queensland" has established a website titled "Pacific Coast Way" that shows a map of the route from the Gold Coast to Cairns, with side trips to the Sunshine Coast, Hervey Bay, Bundaberg, Gladstone, Airlie Beach and Mission Beach. It provides some information about each of the following segments: [2]
Mission Beach developed into a town during the 1940s and 50s with the Mission Beach Post Office opening on 15 December 1949. [25] Mission Beach State School opened on 27 January 1953 in the "tropical jungle" of Mission Beach. On 1 February 1993, the school re-opened at a new site in Wongaling Beach to the south. [26] [27] [28] [29]
The town is about 51.5 kilometres (32 mi) by road from Cairns CBD on Cape Grafton. [6] It is 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) by direct-line distance, but is geographically separated from Cairns CBD by the Murray Prior Range and Trinity Inlet, an inlet of the Coral Sea. [7]
Mayfair 101 also secured over 250 properties on mainland Mission Beach as part of its estimated AUD1.6 billion 10-15-year plan to restore the region. Mayfair 101 was awarded the Dunk Island Spit tender on 14 November 2019 by the Cassowary Coast Regional Council, providing the opportunity for Mayfair 101 to negotiate a 30-year lease over the ...
The Cassowary Coast Region is a local government area in the Far North Queensland region of Queensland, Australia, south of Cairns and centred on the towns of Innisfail, Cardwell and Tully. It was created in 2008 from a merger of the Shire of Cardwell and the Shire of Johnstone .
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Wongaling Beach with Dunk Island in the distance, 2007. The locality takes its name from the beach Wongaling Beach which extends the length of the locality's coastline, [4] [5] and is part of a continuous 11-kilometre (6.8 mi) sandy coastline which links the three adjacent coastal localities (from north to south): Mission Beach (sometimes called North Mission Beach), Wongaling Beach, and South ...