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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.
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 design of the baton was unveiled on 20 November 2016 at a special ceremony in the Jupiter Gold Coast Hotel. [9] The baton was designed by Alex Wall and Warren Shroeder from the Brisbane-based firm Designworks. [10] [11] At the 2018 Good Design Awards conducted by the Good Design Australia, the baton won the Best Product Sport and Lifestyle ...
Known as Australia’s capital of thrills, Cairns attracts adrenaline junkies from across the world. And it’s safe to say no one leaves disappointed. Skydiving is a must over Mission Beach in ...
Major attractions around and in Cairns include Cairns Aquarium, Cairns Botanic Gardens, The Reef Hotel Casino, Kuranda Scenic Railway, Barron Falls and the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway. Towns and localities attracting large numbers of tourists include Cape Tribulation, Port Douglas, Mission Beach and Cardwell.
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 ...
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]
In the east, the Gulf Developmental Road begins at an unnamed junction on the southern edge of Forty Mile Scrub National Park, 241 km (150 mi) south-west of Cairns.It runs west before terminating at its junction with the Burke Developmental Road 7 km (4.3 mi) south of Normanton, a total distance of 442 km (275 mi). [1]