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The Best Attractions In Cairns Region

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Cairns is a city in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. It is on the east coast of Far North Queensland. The city is the 5th-most-populous in Queensland and ranks 14th overall in Australia. Cairns was founded in 1876 and named after William Wellington Cairns, Governor of Queensland from 1875 to 1877. It was formed to serve miners heading for the Hodgkinson River goldfield, but declined when an easier route was discovered from Port Douglas. It later developed into a railhead and major port for exporting sugar cane, gold and other metals, minerals and agricultural products from surrounding coastal areas and the Atherton Tableland region. The popula...
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  • 2. Trinity Beach Trinity Beach
    Trinity Beach is a suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. At the 2016 census, Trinity Beach had a population of 5,488.
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  • 3. Palm Cove Beach Palm Cove
    Palm Cove is a beachside suburb of Cairns in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. It is 27 kilometres north of the city of Cairns. It is named after the palm trees that line the beach.
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  • 5. Michaelmas Cay Cairns
    Michaelmas and Upolu Cays is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 1,409 km northwest of Brisbane and 33 km east of Cairns. It comprises two small cays on Michaelmas Reef, which forms the north-eastern section of the Arlington reef complex, within the Great Barrier Reef.
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  • 6. Josephine Falls Cairns
    The Josephine Falls is a tiered cascade waterfall on the Josephine Creek located in Wooroonooran, Cairns Region in the Far North region of Queensland, Australia.
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  • 8. Crystal Cascades Redlynch
    The Crystal Cascades is a cascade waterfall on the Freshwater Creek in the Far North region of Queensland, Australia.
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  • 10. The Australian Armour & Artillery Museum Cairns Region
    The German bombing of Rotterdam, also known as the Rotterdam Blitz, was the aerial bombardment of Rotterdam by the Luftwaffe on 14 May 1940, during the German invasion of the Netherlands in World War II. The objective was to support the German troops fighting in the city, break Dutch resistance and force the Dutch to surrender. Even though preceding negotiations resulted in a ceasefire, the bombardment took place nonetheless, in conditions which remain controversial, and destroyed almost the entire historic city centre, killing nearly 900 people and making 85,000 others homeless. The psychological and physical success of the raid, from the German perspective, led the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe to threaten to destroy the city of Utrecht if the Dutch Government did not surrender. The Dutch c...
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  • 11. Barron Gorge National Park Cairns Region
    Barron Gorge National Park is a protected area in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. It is predominantly within the locality of Barron Gorge.
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  • 12. Atherton Tableland Cairns Region
    The Atherton Tableland is a fertile plateau which is part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, Australia. The Atherton Tablelands is a diverse region, covering an area of 64,768 square kilometres and home to 45,243 people . The main population centres on the Atherton Tablelands are Mareeba and Atherton. Smaller towns include Malanda, Herberton, Kuranda, Ravenshoe, Millaa Millaa, Chillagoe, Dimbulah, Mt Garnet, Mt Molloy, Tinaroo and Yungaburra. The principal river flowing across the plateau is the Barron River. It was dammed to form an irrigation reservoir named Lake Tinaroo. Tinaroo Hydro, a small 1.6MW Hydroelectric power station is located near the spillway.
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  • 13. Ellis Beach Cairns Region
    Ellis Beach is a locality in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Ellis Beach had a population of 24 people.
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