FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises from bushfires on Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia, November 30, 2020, in this still image taken from video. Queensland Fire and Emergency Services/Handout via REUTERS
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Residents of a coastal township on Australia's World Heritage-listed Fraser Island were told to evacuate on Sunday as a bushfire approached.
Since it was sparked by an illegal campfire seven weeks ago, the blaze has blackened half the island off Australia's north eastern coast, which is part of the Great Barrier Reef and famed for its tropical rainforest on sand dunes, and inland lakes.
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