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  • 1. Hamilton Island Marina Hamilton Island
    Hamilton Island is the largest inhabited island of the Whitsunday Islands in Queensland, Australia. It is positioned approximately 887 kilometres north of Brisbane and 512 kilometres south of Cairns. It is also the only island in the Great Barrier Reef with its own commercial airport, with short direct flights from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Cairns. Like most in the Whitsunday group, Hamilton Island was formed as sea levels rose which created numerous drowned mountains that are situated close to the east coast of Queensland. At the 2011 Australian Census, the island recorded a population of 1,208 people. Hamilton Island is a popular tourist destination all year round. In late August, the island plays host to its annual Hamilton Island Race Week yachting festival, in which more than 25...
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  • 2. Viaduct Harbour Auckland Central
    The North Island Main Trunk is the main railway line in the North Island of New Zealand, connecting the capital city Wellington with the country's largest city, Auckland. The line is 682 kilometres long and passes through Paraparaumu, Palmerston North, Taihape, National Park, Taumarunui, Te Kuiti, Hamilton, and Pukekohe. Most of the NIMT is single track with frequent passing loops, built to the New Zealand rail gauge of 1,067 mm . The line is double track between Wellington and Waikanae , between Hamilton and Te Kauwhata , and between Meremere and Auckland Britomart. Around 460 kilometres of the line is electrified in three separate sections: one section at 1600 V DC between Wellington and Waikanae, and two sections at 25 kV AC: 412 km between Palmerston North and Te Rapa and 34 km between...
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  • 3. Shark Bay Denham
    Shark Bay is a World Heritage Site in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. The 2,200,902-hectare area is located approximately 800 kilometres north of Perth, on the westernmost point of the Australian continent. UNESCO's official listing of Shark Bay as a World Heritage Site reads: Shark Bay’s waters, islands and peninsulas....have a number of exceptional natural features, including one of the largest and most diverse seagrass beds in the world. However it is for its stromatolites , that the property is most renowned. The property is also famous for its rich marine life including a large population of dugongs, and provides a refuge for a number of other globally threatened species.
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  • 5. Queenscliff Harbour Queenscliff
    Fort Queenscliff, in Victoria, Australia, dates from 1860 when an open battery was constructed on Shortland's Bluff to defend the entrance to Port Phillip. The Fort, which underwent major redevelopment in the late 1870s and 1880s, became the headquarters for an extensive chain of forts around Port Phillip Heads. Its garrison included volunteer artillery, engineers, infantry and naval militia, and it was manned as a coastal defence installation continuously from 1883 to 1946. The other fortifications and armaments around the Heads were completed by 1891, and together made Port Phillip one of the most heavily defended harbours in the British Empire. The first Allied shots of World War I were fired when a gun at Fort Nepean fired across the bow of the German freighter Pfalz, as she was attemp...
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  • 6. Picton Sound Picton
    Picton is a town in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand's South Island. The town is located near the head of the Queen Charlotte Sound, 25 km north of Blenheim and 65 km west of Wellington. Waikawa lies just north-east of Picton, and is often considered to be contiguous part of Picton. Picton is a major hub in New Zealand's transport network, connecting the South Island road and rail network with ferries across Cook Strait to Wellington and the North Island. The town has a population of 4,350 , making it the second-largest town in the Marlborough Region behind Blenheim. It is the easternmost town in the South Island with a population of at least 1,000 people.
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  • 7. Gulf Harbour Marina Whangaparaoa
    Gulf Harbour is a development some 4 km from the end of the Whangaparaoa Peninsula, towards the northern end of Auckland, New Zealand. It has one of the country's largest marinas, one of the country's top golf courses, and is regarded as a retreat for Auckland's well-off. The site is also known as Hobbs Bay, and was sold in the early seventies by landowners, the Hobbs family, who still retain some of the coastal area including the Hobbs Bay beach. At the 2013 census, the population was 2,553 in 939 dwellings, with a median age of 43.1 years and median income of $31,200. A reputation as a rich people's location is borne out by Statistics New Zealand data which showed Gulf Harbour Marina as the Auckland suburb with the highest median income, at NZ$60,000. However, the 2013 census showed that...
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  • 14. Whyalla Marina Whyalla
    Whyalla , founded as Hummocks Hill and known by that name until 1916, is the third most populous city in the Australian state of South Australia after Adelaide and Mount Gambier. At the 2016 Census, Whyalla had an urban population of 21,751. It is a seaport located on the east coast of the Eyre Peninsula and is known as the Steel City due to its integrated steelworks and shipbuilding heritage. The port of Whyalla has been exporting iron ore since 1903.
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  • 15. Soldiers Point Marina Soldiers Point
    Soldiers Point is a suburb of the Port Stephens local government area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. Located on the southern shores of Port Stephens it is almost entirely surrounded by the port and is a popular location for fishing and boating. While primarily residential it, like other suburbs around Port Stephens, is a popular tourist destination, especially in summer months. Soldiers Point was originally the site of a garrison of soldiers that was established in 1820 to hunt down escaped convicts.In July 2016, the New South Wales government declared 5.9 ha of the suburb as an Aboriginal place, recognising that Soldiers Point was a special place for cultural, spiritual and historic reasons to the Worimi people.
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