Cairns Botanic Gardens
Tropical garden of orchids and palms beside repurposed WWII naval fuel tanks turned arts venue.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Cairns Botanic Gardens follows a set of concrete and steel tanks built on Collins Avenue in nineteen forty-three to fuel navy ships and planes during the Pacific War. It traces what happened to them after the fighting stopped, through a fuel company, a grazing company, and a leak the navy could not ignore, before the Cairns City Council bought the whole site in nineteen ninety-one. Along the way it touches the gardens themselves, planted since the eighteen eighties with orchids and palms around the tanks. Stand at the entrance on Collins Avenue before you decide which way to walk first.
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