hinchinbrook

it is the Australia's largest island National Park, consist of 39.900 ha which surrounded by the World Heritage Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. hinchinbrook island national park is one of the world’s most outstanding island parks where the bandyin aboriginal people lived on this island for thousands of years. it is surrounded by marine park waters where fringing reefs and seagrass beds are home to a variety of marine life including dugong and green turtles. with its lush rainforests, rugged, misty and heath-covered mountains, sweeping sandy beaches, rocky headlands, paperbark and palm wetlands, mangrove-fringed shores and extensive open forests and woodlands.the island’s mangrove forests are some of the richest and most varied in Australia and an important breeding ground for many marine animals. basically it is two large islands joined by a long sand isthmus which has developed so there is a narrow sandy beach facing south, then a few substantial dunes and a vast, impenetrable mangrove swamp cut by sinuous channels. from the air it is one of the true wonders of the Australian coastline.