Corals, Birds And Turtles

Primary Info Heron Island is a small pristine coal cay located in the southern part of the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland in Australia. The island is 539 kilometres north to the capital of Queensland, Brisbane. The island was discovered in 1843 by a ship called HMS Fly while it was exploring the eastern place of the Great Barrier Reef. The place came to be inhabited only in the early 20th century when a turtle cannery was set up there. The initial efforts to build up turtle cannery or fisheries in the Heron Island did not pay off until in the 1930s when Captain Christian Poulsen, realising the tourism potential of the island, took it on lease. In 1943 the Heron Island was declared a National Park. Today Heron Island is one of the top tourist attractions for it is an area that features wildlifes of all kinds and in every season. A small wooden  [...]