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Article: Qld: Palm Island factbox
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- November 28, 2004
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AAP General News (Australia)
11-28-2004
Qld: Palm Island factbox
BRISBANE, Nov 28 AAP - Factbox on Palm Island.
- Located 65km north-east of Townsville, Palm Island covers 64 sq km of bays, sandy
beaches and forested hills rising to a peak of 548m.
- Palm Island is Australia's largest Aboriginal community with around 4,000 people
living on the island.
- The island community suffers from chronic alcohol, drug and domestic abuse and has
an unemployment rate of around 90 per cent.
- In 1999 The Guinness Book of ...