Fraser Island

Fraser Island lies true of the east coast of Australia. Of stretching over 120 km along the southern the sea-shore of Queensland, Fraser Island is the longest sand island in the world.It is a place of very nice, with long white beaches flanked by strikingly colour sand cliffs, majestic tall rainforests and numerous freshwater lakes of crystal-clear waters.The big sand deposits that make up the island are a continued record of climatic and sea level changes over the past 700,000 years.The highest a low hill on the island reaches up to 260 m above sea level. 40 perched a low hill lakes can be found on the island. The Island also has separate barrage lakes, shaped when moving sand dunes block a watercourse, and 'window' lakes, shaped when a depression exposes part of the regional water table.It is the only place in the world where long rainforests, up to 50 m high, are found growing on sand dunes at elevate of over 200 m.Birds are the most many form of animal life on the island with over 230 species being recorded. It is a particularly important site for wandering birds which use the area as a resting place during their long flights between southern Australia and their breeding grounds in Siberia. The dingo population on the island is looked as the most pure strain of dingoes remaining in eastern Australia

. Short history: In 1860 Fraser Island was published as an Aboriginal reserve. The reserve was greatly repealed two years later following the discovery of valuable stands of timber. The remnant Aboriginal reserve was repealed in 1906, after the Aborigines were removed from Fraser Island. In 1908 the central part of Fraser Island was declared a forestry reserve, and by 1925 most of the island had been set aside as state forest. Fraser Island was published in 1971.The remainder of Fraser Island consist ascendant of vacant Crown land of 78,404ha in public ownership, which has been proposed as a National Park extension subject to resolution of Aboriginal Land interests. Parts of this have been powerfully managed for conservation purposes, and prior to the Commission of Inquiry had been proposed for "preservation zoning".

The Fraser Island (Great Sandy Region) was accepted as a natural World Heritage Site in 1992, on the basis of criteria (ii) and (iii).Legislation is proposed to cover the whole area nominated, as a regional park (DASET, 1991).