Map of Cairns, Souvenir Picture Guidebook for Queensland, Australia

Description

Includes a series of maps for Cairns & vicinity, the unofficial capital of tropical northern Queensland, on the steamy coast of the Coral Sea, a major port for exporting the region’s minerals & agriculture, as well as a popular winter resort for Australians and a jumping off point for exploring the Great Barrier Reef (from Periplus Travel Maps, circa 2000); and a Souvenir Picture Guidebook for Queensland, the massive state (668,000 square miles, the size of Alaska and Nevada combined) in Australia’s northeast, noted for its tropical and subtropical beaches, rainforests, mountains & deserts, bounteous agriculture and massive mining operations, and, of course, as the home of the Great Barrier Reef. (From Steve Parish Publishing, 1998)