Join RIDBC and RIDBC Ambassador and International best-selling author Tara Moss on a wonderful adventure to the UNESCO World Heritage listed Fraser Island.
This year you have a chance to sample the best Kingfisher Bay Resort, Fraser Island has to offer – in one day!
Sights from Fraser Island
Map of Kingfisher Bay Resort, Fraser Island
International bestselling author and RIDBC Ambassador, Tara Moss, will once again host the flight. On this, the ninth Qantas Pathfinders Charity Flight, crew volunteer their time, Qantas supply a 737-400, fuel is donated, and landing fees are waived. Local suppliers offer generous support ensuring everyone has a memorable day.
Pathfinders are a group within Qantas who, since 1967, have raised funds solely for the RIDBC. Further information is available at www.qantas-pathfinders.com.au.
Fly to Fraser Island for a fantastic day out whilst helping both deaf and blind children.
Facts about Fraser Island
- Fraser Island is an island located along the southern coast of Queensland, Australia, approximately 200 kilometres north of Brisbane. Its length is about 120 kilometres and its width is approximately 24 kilometres
- Fraser Island was inscribed as a World Heritage site by UNESCO in December 1992.
- It is also Queensland's largest island, Australia's sixth largest island and the largest island on the East Coast of Australia.
- The island has rainforests, eucalyptus woodland, mangrove forests, wallum and peat swamps, sand dunes and coastal heaths. It is made up of sand that has been accumulating for approximately 750,000 years on volcanic bedrock that provides a natural catchment for the sediment which is carried on a strong offshore current northwards along the coast.
- Fraser Island has been inhabited by humans for as much as 5,000 years.
- Explorer James Cook sailed by the island in May 1770. Matthew Flinders landed near the most northern point of the island in 1802. For a short period the island was known as Great Sandy Island.
- The island became known as Fraser due to the stories of a shipwreck survivor named Eliza Fraser.
- Fraser Island is today a popular tourism destination. Its resident human population was 360 at the census of 2006.
- Estimates of the number of visitors to the island each year range from 350,000 to 500,000.
Want to know more?
Click here to download the 2011 Qantas Pathfinders Charity Flight flyer