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Discovery’s Travel Channel has listed Fraser Island as the World’s Best Beach chosen through consultation with Travel Channel and experts from the US’ leading travel publications including Islands and Travel & Leisure magazines.

American business magazine Forbes listed Fraser one of the World’s Sexiest Islands, and the only Australian island to make the list.  The list says Fraser Island’s “enormous sand dunes provide plenty of space and privacy for frolicking on the beach” and it names Kingfisher Bay Resort as the place to stay.

In 2006 Conde Nast Traveller readers voted Fraser Island into the Top 10 Pacific Islands and previously have voted it to be one of the World’s Top 10 Tropical Islands for 3 years running.

Australian Traveller magazine rated Fraser Island at number 9 in the list of 100 things to do before you die.

Why has Fraser Island been voted ‘sexy’ and a World’s Best Beach?

Stretching over 123 kilometres along the southern coast of Queensland, Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world, and was inscribed on the World Heritage List in recognition of its natural values as an outstanding example representing ongoing ecological and biological processes and as an example of superlative natural phenomena.

Fraser Island features complex dune systems, which are still evolving, and the array of dune lakes is exceptional in terms of number, diversity and age.  The highest dunes on the island reach up to 240 metres above sea level.  Forty perched dune lakes (half the number of such lakes in the world) can be found on the island.  A surprising variety of vegetation grows on the island, ranging from coastal heath to subtropical rainforests.  It is the only place in the world where tall rainforests are found growing on sand dunes at elevations of over 200 metres.

The island also contains many sites of archaeological, social and spiritual significance.  Middens, artefact scatters, fish traps, scarred trees and camp sites bear witness to the lives of original inhabitants.

For more information on Fraser Island visit fraserisland.net.