 The extraordinary sand dunes of Bernier Island |
As white man's diseases starting spreading through Australia's Aboriginal population at the end of the nineteenth Century, the government decided to establish remote hospitals for those suffering from venereal disease and leprosy. Back in 1909, the islands of Bernier and Dorrier offshore from Carnarvon on the mid-west coast of Australia were sufficiently remote to make them entirely suitable for the purpose. While Carnarvon today is a thriving regional hub, visitors to Bernier Island can now camp under exquisite wind-sculpted dunes that are, presumably, much as they were a hundred years ago.
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