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Great Sandy National Park

Index Great Sandy National Park

Great Sandy National Park is a coastal national park in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. [1]

40 relations: Beach stone-curlew, BirdLife International, Black-breasted buttonquail, Boardwalk, Bush stone-curlew, Camping, Canoeing, Cherry Venture, Cooloola Great Walk, Dingo, Dune, Eastern ground parrot, Electric boat, Emu, Four-wheel drive, Fraser Coast Region, Fraser Island, Fraser Island Great Walk, Great Sandy Biosphere Reserve, Green catbird, Hiking, Important Bird Area, Lake Cootharaba, Lake Wabby, Mangrove honeyeater, National park, Noosa Heads, Queensland, Noosa River, Pale-yellow robin, Protected areas of Queensland, Queensland, Rainbow Beach, Queensland, Rainforest, Regent bowerbird, Sand boil, Sand island, Shipwreck, Shire of Cooloola, SS Maheno, Whale watching.

Beach stone-curlew

The beach stone-curlew (Esacus magnirostris) also known as beach thick-knee is a large, ground-dwelling bird that occurs in Australasia, the islands of South-east Asia.

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BirdLife International

BirdLife International (formerly the International Council for Bird Preservation) is a global partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats, and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.

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Black-breasted buttonquail

The black-breasted buttonquail (Turnix melanogaster) is a rare buttonquail endemic to eastern Australia, where it is usually found in rainforest.

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Boardwalk

A boardwalk (board walk, boarded path, promenade) is a constructed pedestrian walkway, often alongside a beach, as walking paths through a park, or in some other tourist area built with wood boards.

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Bush stone-curlew

The bush stone-curlew or bush thick-knee (Burhinus grallarius, obsolete name Burhinus magnirostris) is a large (55–60 cm wingspan), ground-dwelling bird endemic to Australia.

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Camping

Camping is an outdoor activity involving overnight stays away from home in a shelter, such as a tent.

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Canoeing

Canoeing is an activity which involves paddling a canoe with a single-bladed paddle.

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Cherry Venture

Cherry Venture was a 1600 ton cargo ship of Scandinavian origin.

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Cooloola Great Walk

The Cooloola Great Walk is a coastal bushwalking route in the Great Sandy National Park of South East Queensland, Australia.

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Dingo

The dingo (Canis familiaris or Canis familiaris dingo or Canis lupus dingo or Canis dingo) is a type of feral dog native to Australia.

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Dune

In physical geography, a dune is a hill of loose sand built by aeolian processes (wind) or the flow of water.

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Eastern ground parrot

The eastern ground parrot (Pezoporus wallicus) of Australia is one of only five ground-dwelling parrots in the world, the others being its closest relatives, the western ground parrot (Pezoporus flaviventris), the extremely rare night parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis), the somewhat closely related Antipodes parakeet (Cyanoramphus unicolor), and the unrelated highly endangered kakapo (Strigops habroptila) from New Zealand.

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Electric boat

While a significant majority of water vessels are powered by diesel engines, with sail power and gasoline engines also popular, boats powered by electricity have been used for over 120 years.

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Emu

The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is the second-largest living bird by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich.

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Four-wheel drive

Four-wheel drive, also called 4×4 ("four by four") or 4WD, refers to a two-axled vehicle drivetrain capable of providing torque to all of its wheels simultaneously.

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Fraser Coast Region

The Fraser Coast Region is a local government area in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland, Australia, about north of Brisbane, the state capital.

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Fraser Island

Fraser Island (K'Gari, Gari) is a heritage-listed island located along the southeastern coast of the state of Queensland, Australia.

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Fraser Island Great Walk

The Fraser Island Great Walk is a long-distance trail in Queensland, Australia.

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Great Sandy Biosphere Reserve

Great Sandy Biosphere Reserve is a biosphere reserve in the Australian state of Queensland located on land and coastal waters associated both with the local government areas of the Fraser Coast Region and the Gympie Region and Fraser Island, and with the bay known as Hervey Bay.

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Green catbird

The green catbird (Ailuroedus crassirostris) is a species of bowerbird found in subtropical forests along the east coast of Australia, from southeastern Queensland to southern New South Wales.

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Hiking

Hiking is the preferred term, in Canada and the United States, for a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails (footpaths), in the countryside, while the word walking is used for shorter, particularly urban walks.

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Important Bird Area

An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.

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Lake Cootharaba

Lake Cootharaba is a lake on the Noosa River within the locality of Noosa North Shore in the Shire of Noosa, Queensland, Australia.

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Lake Wabby

Lake Wabby is a small freshwater, green colored lake.

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Mangrove honeyeater

The mangrove honeyeater (Gavicalis fasciogularis) is a species of bird in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae.

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National park

A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes.

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Noosa Heads, Queensland

Noosa Heads is a town and suburb of the Shire of Noosa on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.

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Noosa River

The Noosa River is a river situated in South East Queensland.

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Pale-yellow robin

The pale-yellow robin (Tregellasia capito) is a species of passerine bird in the family Petroicidae.

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Protected areas of Queensland

Queensland is the second largest state in Australia.

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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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Rainbow Beach, Queensland

Rainbow Beach is a coastal town in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland, Australia, east of Gympie.

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Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with annual rainfall in the case of tropical rainforests between, and definitions varying by region for temperate rainforests.

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Regent bowerbird

The regent bowerbird (Sericulus chrysocephalus) is a medium-sized, up to 25 cm long, sexually dimorphic bowerbird.

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Sand boil

Sand boils or sand volcanoes occur when water under pressure wells up through a bed of sand.

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Sand island

A sand island is an island that is largely or completely made of sand.

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Shipwreck

A shipwreck is the remains of a ship that has wrecked, which are found either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water.

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Shire of Cooloola

The Shire of Cooloola was a local government area located about north of Brisbane – the state capital of Queensland, Australia.

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SS Maheno

SS Maheno was an ocean liner belonging to the Union Company of New Zealand that operated in the Tasman Sea, crossing between New Zealand and Australia, from 1905 until 1935.

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Whale watching

Whale watching is the practice of observing whales and dolphins (cetaceans) in their natural habitat.

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Redirects here:

Cooloola National Park, K'gari National Park.

References

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

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