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FARNorTH
from the madding crowds
BY SHAWN LoW
Far North Queensland (FNQ) is perhaps the best example of the diversity in Australia’s landscape. This 273,000-plus sq. km swathe of land nestled in the northeast corner of the continent is home to rural mining towns, sugarcane and banana plantations, dense patches of tropical rainforest, dusty former gold-mining towns, more than 70 national parks, the vast barren outback and a coastline that plays host to the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier reef.
26 AUTUMN 2014