Fraser Island Australia

Fraser Island Snapshot

Fraser Island is strictly four-wheel-driving territory. Seventy-Five Mile Beach is an actual highway that runs up the surf side of the island. Four-wheel-drives share the highway with planes making joy flights. Sand tracks cross the island linking lakes and rainforests.

The vast expanse of Fraser Island’s famous Seventy-Five Mile Beach gives easy access to its mighty sand blows, coloured sands, fast-flowing Eli Creek spilling into the ocean, the Maheno shipwreck and Indian Head and the Champagne Pools.

Fraser Island wildlife includes migrating Humpback whales, seen off the island shores from August to October when a whale watch fleet operates. Dolphins, dugong (manatees), turtles, sharks and huge rays also frequent island waters. Australia’s wild dog, the dingo, is regarded as the purest of the breed and Fraser Island boasts 354 recorded species of birds which makes it a paradise for birdwatchers worldwide.

Fraser Island has a rich cultural history. Aboriginal history claims the island as K’gari meaning paradise. European history is rich with tales of shipwrecks, logging and sand mining.

Fraser Island is a “must see” for international tourists visiting Australian and it has been voted one of the world’s Top10 Tropical Islands for three years running by Conde Nast Traveller readers and the entire island is listed in the world’s 10 Best Beaches by the USA cable network Travel Channel. Fraser Island was the only Australian destination to make either list.

The Fraser island Tourist Map includes Seventy-Five Mile Beach and the inland locations of Lakes McKenzie, Basin, Wabby, Jennings, Birrabeen and Boomanjin as well as the rainforests around Pile Valley, Central Station and Wanggoolba Creek. Expert guides in four-wheel-drive coaches conduct tours of the most popular locations.