AUSTRALIA’S SOUTHERN GREAT BARRIER REEF REGION

Southern Great Barrier Reef Region

TOURISM INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES The 1770 Region: (adjoining the Southern Great Barrier Reef) Cape Australia’s next exclusive Tourism and Retirement Hot Spot York The Great Barrier Reef is the largest and most Preamble extensive coral reef system in the world comprising some 2900 individual coral reefs, In 2017, almost 2,500,000 Tourists visited The Southern Great Barrier Reef Region is an 600 continental islands and 300 coral cays. Australia’s World Heritage Great Barrier Reef ideal location for tourism and retirement living

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The world famous Heron Island and a string of 0 Over 85 percent of reef tourists go offshore from Cairns, It represents approximately 10%

pristine coral atolls and lagoons accessible from the k Port Douglas and Whitsundays areas to locations, which make 10% of all coral reefs in the world. unspoilt coastline of the Town of 1770 and from m up less than 10 percent of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Gladstone harbour. s With forecasts of a dramatic rise in inbound Chinese Port Douglas tourists over the next decade, visitations to the reef will A section of the Great Barrier Reef unaffected by Cairns The Great Barrier Reef is easily accessible climb significantly. sediment run-off, coral bleaching, crown of thorns from various access points, including infestation or mass tourism impact. Port Douglas, Cairns, Townsville, Airlie Beach, Anthropogenic environmental impact and best Gladstone, 1770 and . practice management considerations demand that An equitable climate with warm, dry winters, the current concentration of tourists needs to be summer temperatures which rarely exceed 30°C dispersed more widely. maximum and over 250 days of sunshine annually.

The 1770 Region - the only place in Australia where Townsville you can enjoy the waters of a true surfing beach and explore the wonders of the Great Barrier Reef Airlie Beach on the same day. The Whitsundays The Southern Great Barrier Mackay Extensive national parks and recreation reserves which account for over two thirds of the land mass of the 1770 Region – a timeless environmental Reef Region is located jewel. 1250km south of Cairns. Inbound Tourism operators would find the above a very attractive Australian Tourism experience. Gladstone

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Cape York The Great Barrier Reef is the largest and most extensive coral reef system in the world comprising some 2900 individual coral reefs, 600 continental islands and 300 coral cays.

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s Port Douglas Cairns The Great Barrier Reef is easily accessible from various access points, including Port Douglas, Cairns, Townsville, Airlie Beach, Gladstone, 1770 and Bundaberg.

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The World Heritage Southern reef sits below the Tropic of Capricorn at the bottom tip of the cyclone belt and is unaffected by sediment runoff, coral bleaching or crown of thorns starfish infestation.

Heron Island is located 70km from Gladstone harbour. It has resort accommodation for over 300 guests. The coral atoll boasts 21 recognised dive sites and has been nominated as one of the world’s premier dive destinations. Heron Island is home to the largest island based research station in the Southern Hemisphere.

04 Lady Musgrave Island is 50km offshore from 1770 and is the most exceptional reef day trip on the Great Barrier Reef The diminutive 14ha coral cay has a protective reef ring some 10km in diameter, encasing a 1200ha lagoon containing 1200 fish species, three turtle varieties and 200 types of hard & soft corals. Humpback whales migrate along the coast past Lady Musgrave providing seasonal whale watching opportunities.

Fitzroy Lagoon is the longest reef in the Bunker Group and is a 3650ha closed ring reef with a large deep lagoon that can be entered through two narrow natural channels The corals at Fitzroy Lagoon are renowned as the best on the Great Barrier Reef. Day trip tourism is permitted to Fitzroy Lagoon, which is 59km from the Town of 1770.

Lady Elliot Island is located at the very southern end of the Great Barrier Reef Lady Elliot is a world acclaimed crystal clear diving destination with high species diversity and abundance. The island has a small eco resort and is only accessed by light plane. Day trip flights are permitted.

05 Situated below the major cyclone belt, the 1770 region experiences over 250 days of sunshine a year with warm, dry and sunny winters and summer temperatures that rarely exceed 30c maximum.

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Australia’s next tourism and retirement hotspot 07 The 1770 Region: an environmental jewel

Eurimbula National Park beach stone curlews, and 23,000ha: migratory waders such as sooty oystercatchers and little terns. Botanically, this is a key coastal area of Australia preserving The Eurimbula beaches are crucial a complex mix of vegetation nesting sites for adult loggerhead, including plants common to both flatback and green turtles from the tropical and temperate zones. mid-November to February. Mangrove fringed estuaries adjoin The park offers camping facilities freshwater paperbark swamps and close to the ocean and is best coastal lowland eucalypt forests enjoyed between March and with cabbage palms. November. Eurimbula also preserves the largest natural hoop pine plantation on the East Coast of Australia. Joseph Banks Conservation Park:

The National Park abounds is a National Trust site where Captain James Cook undertook with sacred kingfishers, glossy his second landing on Australian soil in May 1770 and naturalist black cockatoos, rare yellow- Joseph Banks collected 33 plant species. bellied gliders, powerful owls, Wildlife abounds in this rich ecological environment. Emu’s stroll“ across the plains, honeyeaters feed in the golden banksia flowers, “red-tailed black cockatoos screech out and brahminy kites soar above the beaches. Other wildlife includes grey kangaroos, swamp wallabies, 08 bandicoots, echidnas, sugar gliders, and ringtail possums. Over two thirds of the 1770 region is national parks, conservation parks, and recreation reserves

Deepwater National Park 4090ha: The park is one of the most renowned pristine freshwater catchment on Australia’s East Coast. Behind the extensive beaches (an important turtle-nesting site), the high frontal dunes descend into swamps on either side of Deepwater Creek. The tannin-stained creek is fringed by tall forests of swamp mahogany, paperbark, and cabbage palms and is broken in places by shallow sections of reed bed and paperbark forests. Further inland are beautiful open forests of wattles, banksias, Moreton Bay ashes, pink bloodwoods, and areas of dense rain forests. 09 The 1770 Region: Where the Surf meets the Reef

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Fitroy Reef Gladstone Bunker Group Lady Musgrave

Lady Elliot Island Town of 1770 Eurimbula Agnes Water Surfing Beach National Park Deepwater National Park

10 The 1770 Region...an Ideal Tourism Investment Location UIRED FO EQ R A S R MA VE JO TI R IA U IT 1 P L Heron Island IN I Curtis Island Masthead Island Construction of 29km of new road F to reduce the distance between T Gladstone and the Town of 1770 Fitroy Reef from 124km to 99km. Gladstone Bunker Group Lady Musgrave 2

Lady Elliot A process to The 1770 Region A substantial land Island remove sand build based reef day trip Town of 1770 Eurimbula up at the 1770 An terminal facility in Agnes Water Surfing Beach National Park inlet entrance. Environmental the 1770 inlet. Deepwater National Park Jewel 4

Additional experienced reef day trip operators. 3 IN S M O IS R U U TH O ER F T N EE GRE ER R AT BARRI 11

AUSTRALIA’S SOUTHERN GREAT BARRIER REEF REGION

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