Queensland
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About Queensland
Queensland is Australia's second largest state and is known as Australia's Sunshine State. It is home to the Great Barrier Reef, the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast with excellent beaches, great surfing, kayaking, jet skiing, diving but also the place for abseiling in the Great Dividing Range.
It has an abundance of wildlife with perhaps best known the protected humpback whales playing on their journey along the Queensland coast, and the many kinds of turtles laying eggs at the beginning of summer and hatching a few months later on its beaches.
Good to know
- Capital: Brisbane
- Climate: Year-round tropical climates
- Timezone: UTC +10
- No. of inhabitants: 3.9 Million
- Travel alert: EnjoyYourWorld strongly advises you to take necessary precautions for a safe travel. For more info please follow this link
Highlights
- The Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest coral reef stretching 2600 km with 3,000 reefs and coral islands, home to a wide diversity of fish and marine life. A world heritage and premier scuba diving site
- The Whitsundays with its 74 islands in the heart of the Great Barrier Reef (1100km north of Brisbane and 600km south of Cairns)
- Visit the Great Barrier Reef in Cairns, your starting point to the rainforests and islands of Tropical North Queensland
- If you have the chance visit the Wet Tropics and Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves, listed on the World Heritage list
- Fraser Island-the largest sand island in the world with its giant sand dunes
- See the dinosaur tracks and fossil sites at Riversleigh
Getting Around
- Daily regional flights are available from Brisbane
- Train: Queensland Rail Rail and Pacific National provide services predominantly along the coastline
- Ferries
- Car
- Try the Pacific Coast Way stretching along the coastline from Maryborough to Cardwell in the north almost from one end of Queensland to the other
- The Matilda Highway, the backbone of the Outback from Barringun on the New South Wales border to Normanton in the Gulf of Carpentaria
- Overlander’s Way crossing Queensland from Townsville to Tennant Creek over 1,500kms of diverse landscape and Outback towns.
- Explore the Tropical North Queensland with its white beaches, coral reefs, coastal wetlands and vibrant green vegetation. See deserted ghost towns and ancient Aboriginal rock art
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