Fraser Island is located in the Australian state of Queensland, bordered by the Pacific Ocean and Coral Sea. Still growing, it is known as the world’s largest sand island, stretching over 120 kilometers along the eastern coast of Australia. Remnants of towering rain forests speckle the ever-shifting and expanding beaches, speaking volumes of the diversity and fluidity of the land. Fraser Island, in many senses, seems like a work in progress.
Populated as many as 5,000 years ago, Fraser Island was home to a small group of Aboriginal Australians which blossomed into a colony of 2-3 thousand in the winter months who sought to utilize the region for its abundant seafood resources. However, due to European occupation and the changes which accompanied this, most of the traditional Aboriginal settlers left by the turn of the 20th century.
The island is home to some of the purest dingoes in the world, and because of this, dogs are prohibited on the island. Other species which populate the island include: swamp wallabies, echidnas, sugar gliders, flying foxes, humpback whales, dolphins, acid frogs (frog species which have adapted to the acidic lakes and swamps on the island) and other reptiles, sea eagles, peregrine falcons, ospreys, cockatoos, and the rare ground parrot.
A bit of history from the island’s original natives:
According to Aboriginal legend, when humans were created and needed a place to live, the mighty god Beeral sent his messenger Nendingie with the goddess K’gari down from heaven to create the land and mountains, rivers and sea. K’gari fell in love with the earth’s beauty and did not want to leave it. So Yendingie changed her into a heavenly island – Fraser Island.
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