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Cairns

Cairns is located on the coastal strip below the Atherton Tableland in northern Queensland, Australia, north of Cape Grafton and south of the Barron River. It had a 2001 population of 99 thousand.1 It is a major tourist destination both for the offshore reefs and the forests of the Great Dividing Range. A scenic railway and skyway server the latter. One of Australia's busiest airports serves it.2 The tallest building is the 16 story Cairns Corporate Tower.3

painted dancers in an open air theater bounded by painted rocks and metal hoops, with green forested hills visible in the background
Tjapukai Dance Theatre, Smithfield (near Cairns), Queensland, Australia

Footnotes

1. Bonzle.com, accessed 3/5/2014.
2. First chart in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in_Australia, accessed 4/21/2014.
3. Emporis.com, accessed 4/22/2014.