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Lady Elliot Island is a true coral cay, built by continually growing coral polyps. This provides some tremendous underwater scuba diving opportunities.

Many scuba divers compare Heron Island and Lady Elliot Island when deciding on a coral reef scuba holiday. But which is best?

A number of human tragedies have occurred on Lady Elliot Island, a coral island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. From these tragedies ghosts may now inhabit the island.

The Great Barrier Reef is renowned as a world's best scuba diving destination. A scuba diver can experience this World Heritage listed environment in different ways.

On the dusty, gravel road between Birdsville and Windorah, the town of Betoota has no inhabitants. The historic hotel is the only structure in Australia's smallest town.

Scuba diving provides many areas for the recreational scuba diver. From easy, relaxing diving on coral reefs to adrenalin charged diving in the bowels of sunken ships.

Banfield didn't want to follow the standard beat of society in the late 1800s, so with wife Bertha, moved onto deserted Dunk Island off the Queensland coast, Australia.

The Isle of Pines (in French, Ile des Pins) is a great location for a scuba dive holiday. It offers coral reef scuba diving, as well as a unique fresh water cave dive.

People severing limbs to free themselves after getting the limb stuck have been happening for while. An incident occurred in 1912 in central Queensland, Australia.

The Bends is a significant scuba diving problem that sits in the mind of every diver while underwater. Understanding the treatment can assist in prevention.

On Boxing Day 1898, one of Queensland's infamous murders took place near the small town of Gatton. A young man and his two sisters were brutally slain in a paddock.

St Helena, a small island in Moreton Bay, was a prison during early European settlement in Brisbane, Queensland. Its convict ruins are now a tourist attraction.

If visiting Australia's Sunshine State, there are holiday experiences not to be missed.