Cooloola National Park
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Great Sandy National Park Queensland |
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IUCN category II (national park)
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The Cathedral coloured sands
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 Great Sandy National Park
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| Nearest town or city | Hervey Bay |
| Coordinates | 25°02′43″S 153°12′36″E / 25.04528°S 153.21000°ECoordinates: 25°02′43″S 153°12′36″E / 25.04528°S 153.21000°E |
| Established | 1971 |
| Area | 2,195.55 km2 (847.7 sq mi) |
| Managing authorities | Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service |
| See also | Protected areas of Queensland |
Great Sandy National Park is a coastal national park in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.
The park features untouched beaches, large sand dunes, heathlands, rainforests, swamps, creeks, freshwater lakes and mangrove forests.
Great Sandy National Park is divided into two sections. The Cooloola section is situated on the coast between Noosa Heads in the south and Rainbow Beach in the north and covers 18,400 hectares (45,000 acres). The K'gari (Fraser Island) section encompasses almost all of the world's largest sand island, Fraser Island, situated north of Rainbow Beach, covering 56,000 hectares (140,000 acres).
The land within the park is classified by BirdLife International as the Cooloola and Fraser Coast Important Bird Area because it supports a large population of black-breasted button-quails as well as many bush and beach stone-curlews, green catbirds, regent bowerbirds, mangrove honeyeaters and pale-yellow robins.Cooloola is also home to the eastern ground parrot and has one of the last coastal populations of the emu.
The Cooloola section contains the Cooloola Great Walk, a five-day hiking trail. Boat tours and canoeing along the Noosa River are popular visitor activities. On Fraser Island is the 90 km long Fraser Island Great Walk.Lake Cootharaba offers fishing, sailing and canoeing opportunities.
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