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A woman has been found dead on a remote island after becoming stranded from a cruise ship. ‌

An investigation has been launched after the 80-year-old solo traveller died during the first stop of a 60-day circumnavigation of Australia - a near £40,000 cruise. ‌

The woman had been out walking on the remote Lizard Island in Far North Queensland after disembarking from the Coral Expeditions cruise ship, reports the Mirror . ‌

Lizard Island is roughly 1,600 km north east of Brisbane and 95 km north east of Cooktown, its closest population centre.

The ship departed from Cairns, in Queensland, on Friday before it anchored off the coast of Lizard Island the following day.

Authorities said they believe the woman had been hiking Lizard Island's summit off the Queensland

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