The bureau has issued a coastal hazards warning for damaging surf and abnormally high tides ... and includes Bundaberg, Sandy Cape, Fraser Island, Noosa Heads, the Sunshine Coast and outer ...

Wild surf and severe winds are battering the Queensland ... urging visitors to stay away from K'gari, formerly known as Fraser Island. People were evacuated from Great Keppel Island on Thursday.

A lot of water has washed its shores since then. Today paradise goes by the name of Fraser Island, renamed by newcomers after a Scottish sea captain and his wife were famously marooned here among ...