Great Barrier Reef
The world's largest coral reef system, over 2,900 reefs and 900 islands stretching more than 2,300 kilometres along the Queensland coast. It is the biggest single structure made by living things, and boats leave from Cairns for snorkelling and diving on the outer reef.
- Where
- Cairns, Queensland, Australia
- Grade
- UNESCO heritage
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 8 for its grade
- Coordinates
- -16.4000, 145.8000
Get the Great Barrier Reef stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Great Barrier Reef. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Queensland volume with your photos and a note.
Near Great Barrier Reef
Green Island 44 km
A small coral cay on the Great Barrier Reef, a short ferry ride from Cairns, ringed by white sand and covered in rainforest. Snorkelling straight off the beach, glass-bottomed boats and a boardwalk through the island's forest fill most visits.
Daintree Rainforest 48 km
Rainforest that runs from the Daintree River north to Cooktown and inland to the Great Dividing Range, about 105 kilometres by road north of Cairns. A cable ferry carries cars across the river into it, and the forest comes right down to the beaches of the coast.
Cape Tribulation 49 km
A headland on the far north Queensland coast where the Daintree rainforest meets the reef, home to only about 120 people. Captain Cook gave it its name in 1770, after the Endeavour ran onto a reef offshore.
Mossman Gorge 51 km
A gorge of the Mossman River at the southern edge of the Daintree, where clear water runs over granite boulders under the rainforest canopy. It lies on the country of the Kuku Yalanji people, and walking tracks lead from the visitor centre into the forest.
Skyrail Rainforest Cableway 51 km
A gondola cableway running 7.5 kilometres above the rainforest canopy of Barron Gorge National Park, from Smithfield in Cairns up to Kuranda. When it opened in 1995 it was the longest gondola cableway in the world, and it stops at stations with boardwalks through the forest.
Kuranda Scenic Railway 55 km
A heritage train that climbs from Cairns over the Great Dividing Range to the village of Kuranda on the Atherton Tableland, along a line built in 1891. The route winds through the Macalister Range, past waterfalls and through tunnels cut by hand.
Wet Tropics of Queensland 89 km
Some 8,940 square kilometres of very wet tropical forest along the coast and ranges of north Queensland, inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1988. It meets all four natural criteria for World Heritage, and takes in the Daintree, Barron Gorge and Mossman Gorge.
Paronella Park 140 km
A Spanish-style castle, grounds and gardens built beside the waterfall at Mena Creek by José Paronella in the 1930s, as a place for locals to swim, dance and picnic. It fell derelict for decades and has since been restored, its mossy stone stairs and towers half taken over by the rainforest.
More UNESCO World Heritage sites in Queensland
Questions
Where is Great Barrier Reef?
Great Barrier Reef is in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Green Island (44 km), Daintree Rainforest (48 km), Cape Tribulation (49 km).
How do I get the Great Barrier Reef stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Great Barrier Reef and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Queensland volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Great Barrier Reef before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Queensland volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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