FRASER ISLAND, AUSTRALIA

Fraser Island stretches over 123 kilometers in length and 22 kilometers at its widest point. With an area of 184 000 hectares it is the largest sand island in the world. You can call it hidden natural treasure. Fraser Island's World Heritage listing ranks it with Australia's Uluru, Kakadu and the Great Barrier Reef. Fraser Island is a precious part of Australia's natural and cultural heritage, it is protected for all to appreciate and enjoy. Fraser island is a place of exceptional beauty, with its long uninterrupted white beaches flanked by strikingly colored sand cliffs, and over 100 freshwater lakes, some tea-colored and others clear and blue all ringed by white sandy beaches. Ancient rain forests grow in sand along the banks of fast-flowing, crystal-clear creeks. Fraser Island is the only place in the world where tall rain forests are found growing on sand dunes at elevations of over 200 meters  The low "wallum" heaths on the island are of particular evolutionary and ecological significance, and provide magnificent wildflower displays in spring and summer. Fraser island is one of most attractive destination for tourists.

FORMATION OF FRASER ISLAND 

Fraser Island has been formed over hundreds of thousands of years as winds, waves and ocean currents have carried sands from the far south-east of Australia, and from as far away as Antarctica (but before Australian and Antarctica split from each other), out to the continental shelf, and in towards the land again in a zigzag pattern, to form a string of sand islands along the Queensland coast. These sand islands reach from South Stradbroke Island, off the Gold Coast, to Fraser Island, just to the south of the Great Barrier Reef. The largest of these islands, Fraser Island was formed as the sand was deposited over what was once a low, hilly terrain formed millions of years ago by volcanic activity. While most of the sand that makes up Fraser Island has come from the far south-east of Australia, some of it has traveled for thousands of kilometers and millions of years from Antarctica, starting its journey before Australia and Antarctica split from each other. About 700 million years ago Antarctica had mountain ranges that rival the modern-day Himalayas. These mountain ranges were eroded with the resulting sands being accumulated on the continental shelf where Fraser Island now lies. Periodic changes in the earth's temperature have created changes in sea levels which have helped to form the island. 
So, tourists can add Fraser Island as one of the destination in their tour list.

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