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Hervey Bay lies on the East Coast of Australia and offers a comfortable sub-tropical climate. As one of Australia's fastest growing cities, Hervey Bay has a population of approximately 48,000 people.

The Bay has a large tourism industry and a reputation as a safe and relaxing family holiday destination. Hervey Bay offers a variety of attractions, activities and entertainment including World Heritage-listed Fraser Island, whale watching, water and beach based activities, most sports, bush walking, and a variety of entertainment venues and restaurants.

Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world, measuring 124 kilometres long and covering an area of 163,000 hectares. The island encompasses an amazing variety of landscapes, including long surf beaches, cliffs and gorges in shades of orange, red, yellow and pure white sand, dense rainforests, vast desert-like sand blows, freshwater lakes perched high up in its dunes, winding streams, great basalt headlands and salt pans with eerie mangrove forests.

This page was last updated at Wednesday, 17-Oct-2007 11:30:37 EST
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