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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.
List of tourist drives in Queensland includes numbered and un-numbered routes. Most routes have an official name, but some have been named in this article based on the region in which they occur.
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]
Skydiving is a must over Mission Beach in Cairns since the views are unbelievable. However, if skydiving isn’t for you, there’s also the opportunity to float above the rainforest in your very ...
South Mission Beach Road is a state-controlled district road (number 8206), rated as a local road of regional significance (LRRS). [1] [8] It runs from Tully–Mission Beach Road in Wongaling Beach to Kennedy Esplanade in South Mission Beach, a distance of 3.3 kilometres (2.1 mi). It does not intersect with any state-controlled road.
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]
The Savannah Way is a route of highways and major roads across the tropical savannahs of northern Australia, linking Cairns in Queensland with Broome in Western Australia. Promoted as a self-drive tourist route, it joins Cairns, Normanton , Borroloola , Katherine , Kununurra , Fitzroy Crossing , Derby and Broome. [ 1 ]
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