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Queensland State Summary

The red hot outback. The lush green rainforests. The golden beaches and sunshine. The cool blue coast. The living kaleidoscope of the Great Barrier Reef and of course, the colourful towns and people.

Queensland is big, bold, bright and beautiful. Australians know it as the "Sunshine State". As the old saying goes, "beautiful one day, perfect the next".

Queensland is the holiday capital of Australia. Stretching for more than 2000 kilometres, Queenland's east coast comprises the famous rainforests, beaches, bays, islands and the Great Barrier Reef. Most of the State's population is concentrated in the coastal regions.

The Great Dividing Range forms a dramatic division down the east coast of Australia. Beginning in Tropical North Queensland and running through New South Wales to Victoria, the Range comes closest to the coast in Queensland.

West of the Great Diving Range is the fertile tableland, which contains some of Australia's most productive agricultural regions. West of the tableland is the vast "Outback", lined with long roads and dotted with tiny towns, stretching all the way to the Simpson Desert and the Northern Territory.

The state sits either side of the Tropic of Capricorn with warm tropics to the north and warm temperatures to the south. There is a narrow sub-equatorial coastal band from Cairns around the northern coast to the Northern Territory border.

One of Queensland's greatest attractions is its climate. It's a land of long warm summers and short cool winters. With a typical subtropical to tropical climate, the seasons are not as distinctive as in the cooler climates of Australia's southern States. Rainfall occurs mainly during summer months, with the highest falls recorded in the tropical north.

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