The Queensland government in Australia announced the official name change of one of the state’s most treasured and culturally significant destinations to its traditional name ‘K’gari’ (formerly Fraser ...

The sunlight filtering through a thick canopy of satinay trees forms a dappled pattern on the sandy base of Fraser Island. The satinays straight, majestic trunks -impervious to water and wood-boring ...

Located 125 mi/200 km north of Brisbane and named for shipwrecked Englishwoman Eliza Fraser, this island north of Noosa Heads is the largest coastal dune system in the world. A paradise of beache ...

FRASER ISLAND, Australia (dpa) – The bus shakes wildly and heads are quickly drawn back inside as the wheels dip into another pothole in the road. The large all-terrain vehicle has been struggling ...

Forget Fraser Island. The world’s largest sand island is now officially known by its traditional name, K’gari, the government of the Australian state of Queensland announced Wednesday. The name change ...

This story appears in the September 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. It wasn't enough simply to create the world; the Aboriginal god Beeral wanted it to be beautiful as well. And so he sent ...