Great Sandy Strait

The Great Sandy Strait is a 70 km sand passage estuary separating mainland Queensland, Australia from World Heritage listed Fraser Island. A complex landscape of mangroves, sandbanks, intertidal sand, mud islands, salt marshes and seagrass beds, the Strait is an important habitat for breeding fish, crustaceans, dugongs, dolphins and marine turtles. The area is also an important roosting site for CAMBA and JAMBA listed migratory shorebirds. The lower part of Great Sandy Strait was listed under the Ramsar Convention as a wetland of international significance in 1999. Other protected areas within or adjacent to the Strait include Great Sandy National Park, Poona National Park and Great Sandy Conservation Park. Tourism and commercial and recreational fishing are the major activities within the Strait.