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Whitsunday Islands

Index Whitsunday Islands

The Whitsunday Islands is a collection of continental islands of various sizes off the central coast of Queensland, Australia, approximately north of Brisbane. [1]

36 relations: Bowen, Queensland, Brisbane, Brisbane Times, Cumberland Islands (Queensland), Daydream Island, Dent Island (Queensland), Gloucester Island National Park, Government of Queensland, Great Barrier Reef, Hamilton Island (Queensland), Hayman Island, HMS Endeavour, Hook Island, International Date Line, James Cook, Lindeman Island, Lindeman Islands National Park, List of islands of Australia, List of Queensland's Q150 Icons, Long Island (Whitsunday Islands), Molle Islands National Park, NASA Earth Observatory, Ngaro people, Pentecost, Proserpine, Queensland, Q150, Queensland, Regions of Queensland, South Molle Island, Tourism in Australia, Whit Monday, Whitehaven Beach, Whitsun, Whitsunday Island, Whitsunday Islands National Park, Whitsunday Region.

Bowen, Queensland

Bowen is a coastal town and locality in the Whitsunday Region on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia.

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Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.

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Brisbane Times

Brisbane Times is an online newspaper for Brisbane and Queensland, Australia.

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Cumberland Islands (Queensland)

The Cumberland Islands form a group of 70 islands at on the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Mackay in Queensland, Australia.

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Daydream Island

Daydream Island is one of seven islands of the Molle Group, a sub-group of the Whitsunday Islands in Queensland, Australia.

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Dent Island (Queensland)

Dent Island is an island just off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

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Gloucester Island National Park

Gloucester Island is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 950 km northwest of Brisbane.

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Government of Queensland

The Government of Queensland, also referred to as the Queensland Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of Queensland.

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Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over over an area of approximately.

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Hamilton Island (Queensland)

Hamilton Island is the largest inhabited island of the Whitsunday Islands in Queensland, Australia.

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Hayman Island

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.

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HMS Endeavour

HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Australia and New Zealand on his first voyage of discovery from 1768 to 1771.

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Hook Island

Hook Island is one of the Whitsunday Islands off the coast of the Australian state of Queensland.

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International Date Line

The International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary line of demarcation on the surface of Earth that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole and demarcates the change of one calendar day to the next.

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (7 November 1728Old style date: 27 October14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.

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Lindeman Island

Lindeman Island is an island in the Lindeman Group of the Whitsunday Islands off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

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Lindeman Islands National Park

Lindeman Islands National Park is a national park covering the Lindeman Islands in Queensland, Australia, 885 km northwest of Brisbane.

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List of islands of Australia

This is a list of selected Australian islands grouped by State or Territory.

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List of Queensland's Q150 Icons

Queensland's Q150 Icons is an official list of cultural icons compiled as part of Q150 (the 150th birthday of Queensland) in 2009 by the Government of Queensland, Australia, that represent the people, places and events that are significant to Queensland.

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Long Island (Whitsunday Islands)

Long Island is a member of the Whitsunday Island group off the east coast of Queensland, Australia.

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Molle Islands National Park

Molle Islands is a national park in North Queensland, Australia, 913 km northwest of Brisbane.

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NASA Earth Observatory

NASA Earth Observatory is an online publishing outlet for NASA which was created in 1999.

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Ngaro people

The Ngaro People were a seafaring Australian Aborigine group of people that inhabited the Whitsunday Islands and coastal regions of Queensland, in an area that archaeologically shows evidence of human habitation since 9000 BP.

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Pentecost

The Christian feast day of Pentecost is seven weeks after Easter Sunday: that is to say, the fiftieth day after Easter inclusive of Easter Sunday.

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Proserpine, Queensland

Proserpine (locally) is a town and a locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Q150

Q150 was the sesquicentenary (150th anniversary) of the Separation of Queensland from New South Wales in 1859.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Regions of Queensland

The Regions of Queensland refer to the geographic areas of the Australian state of Queensland.

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South Molle Island

South Molle Island, part of the Whitsunday Islands, is a resort island in the Whitsunday section of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Australia.

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Tourism in Australia

Tourism in Australia is an important component of the Australian economy.

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Whit Monday

Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday (also known as Monday of the Holy Spirit) is the holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost, a moveable feast in the Christian calendar.

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Whitehaven Beach

Whitehaven Beach is a 7 km stretch along Whitsunday Island, Australia.

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Whitsun

Whitsun (also Whitsunday or Whit Sunday) is the name used especially in Britain and Ireland, and throughout the world among Anglicans and Methodists, for the Christian festival of Pentecost, the seventh Sunday after Easter, which commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Christ's disciples (Acts 2).

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Whitsunday Island

Whitsunday Island is the largest island in the Whitsunday group of islands located off the coast of Central Queensland, Australia.

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Whitsunday Islands National Park

Whitsunday Islands is a national park in Queensland, Australia, northwest of Brisbane.

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Whitsunday Region

The Whitsunday Region is a local government area located in North Queensland, Australia.

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Holiday Islands, Lindeman Islands, Molle Islands, Whitsunday Passage, Whitsundays.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitsunday_Islands

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