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... that Mount Bellenden Ker, Queensland's second highest peak, holds the record for the highest rainfall in a calendar year of 12,461 mm in 2000?
...that Lamington National Park contains the most northern stand of Antarctic Beech in Australia?
...that Urangan Pier (pictured) which was built between 1913 and 1917, originally to a length of 1107 metres, served as an extension to the Hervey Bay railway line?
... that the Queensland Ambulance Service is the fourth-largest ambulance service in the world?

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