
| Post Trip | Saturday 11 August 2012 | ||||
| Start/ End | Selected Brisbane Congress hotels (Numbers limited to 45) | ||||
| Cost | $130 fully escorted including lunch and refreshments | ||||
| Description | Stradbroke Island is one of the world's largest sand islands with 285 square kilometres of vegetated dunes and heavy mineral and pure quartz sand mining adjacent to a National Park. Complex paleoclimateatic history, freshwater lakes, aeolian deposits and sand dunes formed by wind transport, longshore drift during Quaternary high and low sea levels.. | ||||
| Highlights | Stradbroke Island, sand mining, wildlife, Moreton Bay Marine Park and National Park | ||||
| Leader | Dr Kevin Welsh, The University of Queensland | ||||
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