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Australia

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Place guide · Daintree RainforestDaintree Rainforest

An ancient rainforest region on the northeastern coast of Queensland covering approximately 1,200 square kilometres, part of the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Wet Tropics of Queensland and recognised as one of the oldest extant rainforest communities on Earth at roughly 180 million years old.

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Place guide · Wineglass BayWineglass Bay

A pristine curved beach tucked inside Freycinet National Park on Tasmania's east coast, encircled by pink-granite Hazards peaks and a dense fringe of coastal scrub, Wineglass Bay is routinely cited among the world's most beautiful beaches and provides the centrepiece of one of Australia's most cherished coastal wilderness experiences.

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Place guide · Great Barrier ReefGreat Barrier Reef

The world's largest coral reef system, stretching over 2,300 kilometres off the coast of Queensland, built by billions of coral polyps and selected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981.

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Place guide · Sydney Opera HouseSydney Opera House

A masterpiece of 20th-century architecture on Bennelong Point, Sydney Harbour, designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon and formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1973.

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Place guide · Twelve ApostlesTwelve Apostles

A striking row of limestone stacks rising from the Southern Ocean off Victoria's coast, along the Great Ocean Road in Port Campbell National Park — once nine, now seven, sculpted over millennia by relentless ocean weather into monuments of stone.

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Place guide · UluṟuUluru

A vast sandstone monolith rising from the red desert heart of Australia's Northern Territory, sacred to the Aṉangu people for tens of thousands of years and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its outstanding universal value as both a natural and cultural landmark.

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