• Queensland

You don’t need to be a diver to explore Australia’s incredible ship graveyard

One of Queensland’s best snorkelling sites is nowhere near the Great Barrier Reef – it’s just a short ferry ride from Brisbane.

• Andrew Bain

• Inspiration

Tangalooma Island Resort hotel review, Moreton Island, Queensland: Like a Thai beach resort holiday, but in Australia

Stick this in Thailand or Bali, and Australians would be fighting over themselves to get here.

• David Whitley

• Beach and island holidays

Moreton Bay, Queensland Earthwatch holiday: The ultimate guilt-free holiday

There's a science to taking a great holiday. And there's no other place like this one.

• Louise Southerden

• Ocean cruises

The new action on deck

Kids can have fun at sea, too, especially when adrift from their parents, writes Liam Oliver.

• Ocean cruises

It's all food for thought

Relax your body but exercise your mind on your next cruise holiday, suggests Katrina Lobley.

• Adventure holidays

A line in the sand

There are wild times in the dunes at Moreton Island but Melanie Ball refuses to step over the mark.

• Family holidays

Blissful breaks: it's in the stars

Australian families can't get enough of Queensland, writes Kristie Lau.

• Inspiration

Moreton Island - Fast Facts

Moreton Island (including Russell Island, Macleay Island, Lamb Island and Karragarra Island) Popular day tripper destination to the east of central Brisbane. To the east of Brisbane lies Moreton Bay which Captain James Cook, when sailing up the coast in 1770, named after James Douglas, the Earl of Morton. After receiving the honour of having a bay named after him the Earl of Morton had to live with the cruel irony that 'Morton' ended up as 'Moreton'. A spelling error in the Hawkesworth edition of Cook's Journal, the error was never changed, and this Moreton become the accepted spelling of the bay. The spelling error was compounded in 1799 when Matthew Flinders decided to name the island to the east of the bay, Moreton Island.

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Moreton Island - Sleep

Moreton Island (including Russell Island, Macleay Island, Lamb Island and Karragarra Island) Popular day tripper destination to the east of central Brisbane. To the east of Brisbane lies Moreton Bay which Captain James Cook, when sailing up the coast in 1770, named after James Douglas, the Earl of Morton. After receiving the honour of having a bay named after him the Earl of Morton had to live with the cruel irony that 'Morton' ended up as 'Moreton'. A spelling error in the Hawkesworth edition of Cook's Journal, the error was never changed, and this Moreton become the accepted spelling of the bay. The spelling error was compounded in 1799 when Matthew Flinders decided to name the island to the east of the bay, Moreton Island.

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Moreton Island - Places to See

Moreton Island (including Russell Island, Macleay Island, Lamb Island and Karragarra Island) Popular day tripper destination to the east of central Brisbane. To the east of Brisbane lies Moreton Bay which Captain James Cook, when sailing up the coast in 1770, named after James Douglas, the Earl of Morton. After receiving the honour of having a bay named after him the Earl of Morton had to live with the cruel irony that 'Morton' ended up as 'Moreton'. A spelling error in the Hawkesworth edition of Cook's Journal, the error was never changed, and this Moreton become the accepted spelling of the bay. The spelling error was compounded in 1799 when Matthew Flinders decided to name the island to the east of the bay, Moreton Island.