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He first went scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef in 1957, returning almost 60 years later to cap his career with a three-part masterpiece, David Attenborough’.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E5. \u003C/b\u003EThe Ribbon Reefs north of Cooktown is the only place in the world where you can swim with Dwarf Minke Whales\u003Cbr\u003E\r\n\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E6.\u003C/b\u003E Africa has the Big 5. Australia has the Great 8. And you can tick them off up and down the reef. 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The sharp tourism boom, according to the local caravan owner, means an urgent annual order for 42km of toilet paper.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E10. \u003C/b\u003EThe Boeing 707, VH-EBA, at the Qantas Founders Museum in Longreach is a little plane with a big history. In 1959, it flew a young Queen Elizabeth to Australia, in 1964, it brought the Fab Four (Beatles) to Brisbane and in the 1980s it ferried both Michael Jackson and Madonna to their gigs. You can still see it today!\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003E11. \u003C/b\u003EOn 12 October 2019, the World Cetacean Alliance (WCA) declared Hervey Bay on Queensland’s Fraser Coast the world’s first Whale Heritage Site after the region pipped five other notable whale locations globally. 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