Palm Island, Queensland
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Palm Island is a locality consisting of an island group of 16 islands, split between the Shire of Hinchinbrook and the Aboriginal Shire of Palm Island, in Queensland, Australia. The locality coincides
View of nearby islands from Mount Bently, Palm Island
Palm Island Swimming hole – 'Palm Valley'
Palm Island, North-east bay
Fantome Island and Orpheus Islands seen from Palm Island
Sea cucumber
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Sea cucumbers are echinoderms from the class Holothuroidea. They are benthic marine animals found on the sea floor worldwide, and the number of known holothuroid species worldwide is about 1,786, with
Palm Island, Queensland
…is estimated that the population of the island at the time of Cook's 1770 visit was about 200 people. From the 1850s, locals were enticed away to join bêche-de-mer and pearling enterprises with Europeans and Japanese, and by the end of the 19th century the population had been reduced to about 50. In 1914, the Palm…
Thelenota ananas, a giant sea cucumber from the Indo-Pacific tropics
Details of the mouth with its tentacles.
Synaptula lamperti lives on sponges (here in Indonesia).
Synapta maculata, the longest known sea cucumber (Apodida).