Holiday Sights Cairns
Cairns is a tropical paradise and people from southern Australia flock there in the Australian winter.
Cairns is situated on the northeast coast of Australia about 1700 kilometres north of Queensland’s capital city, Brisbane. It is on Trinity Bay on the eastern coast of Cape York Peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Atherton Tablelands. The town was named after Sir William Wellington Cairns, who was Queensland’s first Irish-born Governor. The 75 kilometre railway line was built entirely by hand by up to 1500 workers using bare hands, buckets and dynamite, and the railway allowed Cairns to blossom.Map of Cairns
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