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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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