where in australia is the great barrier reef located?
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The Great Barrier Reef is located in the tropical waters of Far North Queensland. The marine park stretches over 3000km (1800 miles) almost parallel to the Queensland coast, from near the coastal town of Bundaberg, up past the tip of Cape York.
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['Airlie Beach / Whitsundays, Queensland.', 'Kununurra, Western Australia. ... ', 'Grampians National Park, Victoria. ... ', 'Byron Bay, New South Wales. ... ', 'Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory. Image Credit – Tourism NT. ... ', 'Hunter Valley, New South Wales. Image Credit- Destination NSW. ... ']
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Nauru, island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of a raised coral island located in southeastern Micronesia, 25 miles (40 km) south of the Equator. NauruNauru.
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["Uluru - Australia's Big Rock. Uluru is Australia's most iconic geographic feature and is the largest monolith (single rock formation) in the world. ... ", 'The Great Barrier Reef. ... ', 'The Twelve Apostles. ... ', 'The Great Dividing Range. ... ', 'The Great Australian Bight.']
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Reaching the Barrier Reef from Cairns and Port Douglas only takes from 35 minutes to one and a half hours depending on your boat type and the location you are going to snorkel and scuba dive, whereas from everywhere else on the east coast of Australia it takes two and half to three hours to reach the snorkelling and ...
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Australia Zoo is a 1,000-acre (400 ha) zoo located in the Australian state of Queensland on the Sunshine Coast near Beerwah/Glass House Mountains.
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Purple Sea Urchins are an endemic Australian species, which can are found in southern Queensland, NSW, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia. They inhabit coastal waters up to 35 m in depth, but are most common in waters shallower than 10 m.
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['Canberra, ACT.', 'Perth, WA. ... ', 'Broome, WA. ... ', 'Gold Coast, QLD. ... ', 'Melbourne, VIC. ... ', 'Barossa Valley, SA. ... ']
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As the world's most extensive coral reef ecosystem, the Great Barrier Reef is a globally outstanding and significant entity. ... This diversity of species and habitats, and their interconnectivity, make the GBR one of the richest and most complex natural ecosystems on earth.
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Hayman Island is the most northerly of the Whitsunday Islands, part of the Cumberland Islands, which are located off the coast of Central Queensland, Australia at 20°03′S 148°53′E. It is a private island open to the public, most famous for its luxury resort which was built in the 1950s by Ansett Transport Industries.
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There are nine species of razor clam, also known as razor fish, endemic to Australian waters. They are found from tropical Australia around the southwest to Gulf St Vincent, South Australia and down the east coast to NSW, but are absent in Victoria and Tasmania.
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Funnel-web spiders live in the moist forest regions of the east coast and highlands of Australia from Tasmania to north Queensland. They are also found in the drier open forests of the Western Slopes of the Great Dividing Range and South Australia's Gulf ranges.
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['Murramarang National Park, NSW, Australia.', 'Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary is located just outside of Hobart in Tasmania. ... ', 'Lucky Bay, WA, Australia.', 'Kangaroo Island, SA, Australia.', 'Woodlands Historic Park, Greenvale, VIC, Australia.']
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Koalas are endemic to Australia and can be found in the wild throughout Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and the ACT.
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Cairns, Australia, is one of the stepping off points for snorkelling the Great Barrier Reef, but is there a beach in Cairns? No, actually, there's not. There is a pretty esplanade walkway and a narrow strip of sand but mostly Cairns has a busy estuary and salt water crocodiles, big ones.
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The saltwater, or estuarine crocodile is found in estuaries, rivers, lagoons and swamps of the Australian tropics, from along the east coast south of Mackay all the up the coast to Cape York, and across the coastline of the northern half of Australia.
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['The Great Barrier Reef. ... ', 'Fraser Island. ... ', 'Kuranda. ... ', 'Queensland Cultural Centre. ... ', 'Tangalooma Wrecks. ... ', 'Capricorn Caves. ... ', "Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame & Outback Heritage Centre. ... ", 'Mossman Gorge.']