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    The Great Sandy Strait is a strait in the Australian state of Queensland of 70 kilometres (43 mi) length which separates mainland Queensland from K'gari...
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  • 19th century Great Sandy Island (Western Australia) Fraser Island, Australia, known for a short period as Great Sandy Island Great Sandy Strait, Australia...
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    people. The locality of Tin Can Bay is bounded on the east by the Great Sandy Strait, which separates mainland Queensland from Fraser Island. The area...
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    84333 (Hervey Bay (bay))) and to the east by the northern end of the Great Sandy Strait (and beyond it, Fraser Island). Dayman Point is a headland (25°17′03″S...
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    became well known as ships passed through the area before entering the Great Sandy Strait and the port. The coastal parts of the region are centered on the...
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    Kenilworth, Gympie, Tiaro and Maryborough before emptying into the Great Sandy Strait, a passage of water between the mainland and Fraser Island, near the...
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    part of the Great Sandy National Park, and is a popular tourism destination. K'gari is separated from the mainland by Great Sandy Strait. The southern...
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    average depth is about 20 metres. In the south of the bay lies the Great Sandy Strait. The Mary River, Burrum River and Burnett River flow into the bay...
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  • its cultural and ecological significance, the reserve contains the Great Sandy Strait, a Ramsar-listed wetland, and Fraser Island, a UNESCO World Heritage...
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    census, Booral had a population of 1,636 people. The proximity to the Great Sandy Strait enables salt water aquaculture, including the farming of fish, sea...
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    Hervey Bay. The town is built on a narrow peninsula surrounded by the Great Sandy Strait (to the east), the mouth of the Mary River (to the south) and the...
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  • causing one division to converge with Bunya Creek as it flows into the Great Sandy Strait. The island is 116 hectares in size. Kangaroo Island has recently...
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    Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2017. "Sandy Strait SS". Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 28 January...
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    into the Conservation, Management and Use of Fraser Island and the Great Sandy Strait Region (1990) Final Discussion Paper : Volume 1: Background. Government...
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    also includes Big Woody Island and other islands in the northern Great Sandy Strait. Fraser Island is divided into six parishes, listed as follows, from...
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  • vulnerable species. It was alleged that reduced fresh water flows to the Great Sandy Strait would have affected the growth of seagrass, the Dugong's primary food...
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    census, the locality of Boonooroo had a population of 371 people. The Great Sandy Strait forms the eastern and southern boundaries. The town's name is an Aboriginal...
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  • Tinnanbar had a population of 64 people. Tinnanbar is bounded by the Great Sandy Strait on the north and east and by Kauri Creek to the south. The town is...
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    a pair of heritage-listed lighthouses at Big Woody Island in the Great Sandy Strait, Hervey Bay, Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. They were...
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  • The division was created in 1984 and is named after Bert Hinkler, the great pioneer Australian aviator. The seat is located in coastal Queensland, including...
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  • the southern boundary, while several tidal inlets also drain to the Great Sandy Strait. The locality is predominantly coastal tree swamps with Melaleuca...
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  • Archived from the original on 24 September 2005. Retrieved 7 October 2010. "Great Sandy World Heritage Area". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Archived from the...
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    Channel and the North Sea, and separating Great Britain from continental Europe. The shortest distance across the strait, at approximately 20 miles (32 kilometres)...
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    -25.7444; 152.9322 (Tawan)) within the Fraser Coast Region. The Great Sandy Strait forms part of the eastern boundary. In the 2016 census, Tuan Forest...
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  • confertus). The seaward side of the Wide Bay Area is continuous with the Great Sandy Strait region, which is heritage-listed in its own right. As at 1988, the...
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    into the ocean. It lies between Tin Can Bay to the South West and Great Sandy Strait to the North and curves back towards Rainbow Beach and the Coral Sea...
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  • Localities around Poona: Tuan Forest Tuan Forest Great Sandy Strait Tuan Forest Poona Great Sandy Strait Tuan Forest Great Sandy Strait Great Sandy Strait...
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    locality, north of Eurong. Almost all of the locality is within the Great Sandy National Park except for isolated pockets of development at Orchid Beach...
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    O'Connell 2016–2018 (dismissed): Chris Loft 2018–present: George Seymour Great Sandy Biosphere Reserve Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Fraser...
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    of the land border across Boundary Islet). The strait provides the most direct waterway between the Great Australian Bight and the Tasman Sea, and is also...
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