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Cairns - Tropical North Queensland
17º South, 145º East
Cairns
(population over 133,000 and growing at 3+% per annum since 2005/6) is the principal city of FNQ
(area 377,000 km²). In 100 years it has grown from a tiny, remote village of
4,000 people to one of the top 20 of Australia's largest (and most beautiful)
cities.
The indigenous
people - the Australian Aborigines and Melanesian Torres Strait Islanders - (who preceded
the Anglo-Celtic and European migrant settlement by thousands of years) comprise 11% of
FNQ's exotic, colourful and multicultural population.
Over the last
two centuries Australians have married into many Caucasian and Asian migrant
cultures. Today, our population and lifestyle is truly cosmopolitan - a vibrant mix of
colour and exotic gene pools. FNQ's urbane sophistication derives from the fascinating history of
the area's original inhabitants followed by the more recent history of
exploration, colonisation, and migration - while the whole of Australia has been
Nirvana, throughout the decades, for the "boat people" in us all.

Cairns is host
to a number of indigenous art and craft enterprises as well as the world famous
Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park - right next door to the internationally successful
Skyrail Rainforest Cableway.
The FNQ economy
has two chief exports - Sugar and Tourism. Other main industries include: Agriculture
(sugar cane, bananas, tropical fruits, beef, dairy etc); Mining; Fishing and Manufacturing
(food processing and engineering).
As a mining
domicile Cairns supports operations throughout Queensland as well as in Irian Jaya and
Papua New Guinea - our near neighbours to the North. Cairns role as a major
servicing and fly-in/fly-out centre for the booming mining sector in northern
Australia continues to grow on the back of high global commodity prices

Cairns' International Airport is the closest to the "outback", and links
Australia to Asia and the rest of the world. Qantas' new no frills airline,
Jetstar, is expected to begin international services to Japan later in 2007 and
a hungry Tiger Airlines will further boost tourist numbersto our region
should they Singapore based airline commence domestic routes next year
International visitors to the area continue to grow beyond 1 million pa from a
mere 81,000 a year in 1981
The whole
Coastal area of Cairns, and its hinterland - the Atherton Tablelands, is a virtual
adventurers playground and paradise.

A fast growing
James Cook University at Smithfield, and the several International Language
schools further increase international
visitors to Cairns and the Far North.

Like other
"Top End" cities Cairns is a cosmopolitan, vibrant and an exciting "can
do" place to live and visit. As such it attracts enterprising residents and tourists
from all over the world.
We have been
honoured to preserve our priceless dual assets of the world's Heritage Listed Great
Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics.
Machans Beach lies 11km to the north east of Cairns city - on the edge of the Coral
Sea. Click here for a slideshow - Images of Machans.
Parramatta Park is within 2 Kms
of the Cairns CBD
Edge Hill is a leafy village suburb at the base of Mount Whitfield, close to the
botanical gardens.
Freshwater is another leafy, sought after suburb to the north of Cairns.
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