Australia's best islands for a holiday: The pick of our 8000 islands

By Ute Junker
Updated July 4 2016 - 4:08pm, first published July 3 2016 - 12:15am
Discover the spectacular coral at Lady Elliot Island. Photo: Tourism and Events Queensland
Discover the spectacular coral at Lady Elliot Island. Photo: Tourism and Events Queensland

Say the words "island nation" and we tend to think of somewhere in the South Pacific: Fiji, perhaps, or the Solomon Islands. Yet with more than 8000 islands scattered around our coastline, Australia has plenty of island escapes of its own – and not all of them are off the coast of Queensland.

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