Article: Qld: Palm Island factbox


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 ...

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