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240  QUEENSLAND

Exploring South of Townsville
TOWNSVILLE & G r e a t
With easy access from Brisbane (see pp222–37), MAGNETIC ISLAND
the southern coastline of Queensland is one Cairns Bowling Green Bay
National Park
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beaches and good surf. Fraser Island Bowen
Burdekin
is one of the region’s undisputed CHARTERS Clarke Range
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highlights with its vast beaches, cool Homestead
blue lakes and interior rainforests. Pentland Collinsville
Behind the fertile coastal plains are
EUNGELLA
many of the 1850s gold rush “boom Dalrymple NATIONAL PARK
Lake
towns”, while the Capricorn Hinterland, Hughenden Finch Hatton
inland from Rockhampton, has the
fascinating sapphire gem fields near Blackwood Mount Elphinstone
Coolon
Emerald and the dramatic sandstone National Park Belyando Crossing
Lake
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Tableland national parks. To the north of the Belyando lya ly y DOWNS HIGHWAY
region is the busy city of Townsville, a major WNS WN N
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Sights at a Glance Range
1 Lamington National Park
2 Darling Downs
3 Sunshine Coast Hinterland Key Chesterton Mount Hutton
940m
4 Maryborough Highway
5 Hervey Bay
6 Fraser Island p246 Major road Morven
7 Mon Repos Conservation Park Minor road Charleville Mitchell
8 Gladstone Track
9 Rockhampton Scenic route
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