Fraser Island Australia - World Heritage Listed

Fraser Island Australia - World Heritage Listed

Fraser Island stretches over 123 kilometers long and 22 kilometers at the widest point. The area of 184,000 hectares is the largest sand island in the world.

Fraser Island World Heritage listing ranks it with Australia Uluru, cockatoo and the Great Barrier Reef. Fraser Island is a valuable part of the natural and cultural heritage of Australia, is protected for all to appreciate and enjoy.

Fraser Island is a place of exceptional beauty with its long uninterrupted white beaches flanked by highly colored sand cliffs, and more than 100 freshwater lakes, tea and other colors are clear and blue all ringed by white sand beaches. Ancient rainforests grow in sand along the banks of fast flowing, crystal clear bay.

Fraser Island is the only place on earth where large trees were found growing on sand dunes in an increase of more than 200 meters. Low "vallum" heaths on the island, particularly evolutionary and ecological significance, and provide magnificent wildflower displays in spring and summer.

Huge sand blows and cliffs of colored sands are part of the longest and most complete years down the coastal dune systems in the world and is still developing. Constantly record on climate change and sea level over the past 700 000 years. Most of the dunes on the island and up to 240 meters above sea level. Great Sandy Strait, separating Fraser Island from the mainland, is listed by the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention).

Wetlands are rare fern patterns, mangrove colonies, sea grass beds and up to 40,000 migratory shorebirds. Rare, endangered or vulnerable species are dugongs, turtles, blue ant-Illidge, butterfly and Eastern curlevs.