Long Island (Queensland)
| long Island | ||
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| Waters | Coral sea | |
| Archipelago | Whitsunday Islands | |
| Geographical location | 20 ° 21 '26 " S , 148 ° 51' 9" E | |
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| length | 9 km | |
| width | 500 m | |
Long Island is located in the Whitsunday Islands on the east coast of Queensland in Australia . The island is located one kilometer from the mainland coastline. It belongs to the group of Molle Islands and extends for 9 kilometers in length and reaches 500 meters at its widest point. Officially, the archipelago belongs to the Cumberland Islands . The closest major location is Airlie Beach .
history
The Molle Islands were an area of the Ngaro Aboriginal tribe , who were hunter-gatherers for about 9,000 years . They lived nomadically with boats on the islands. After the islands of this sea area were discovered and settled by the Europeans, the white colonialists confronted the Aborigines , who were thereby displaced from their original habitat and exterminated.
today
Much of the island is part of the Molle Islands National Park . There are three hotel resorts on this tourist island: Ocean Hotel Long Island Resort, Peppers Palm Bay and Paradise Bay, the latter being a nudist resort . The island can be reached by boat from Shute Harbor . There are three named beaches on the island: Happy Bay, Palm Bay and Sandy Bay. Flying boats can enter a certain zone in front of the island.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on southmolleisland.com.au ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 23, 2003
