the 2009:

website: http://www.jcu.edu.au/

address:

101 Angus Smith Drive Townsville QLD 4811

established: 1970

num_students: 16599

information:

One of the world's leading institutions focusing on the tropics, Australia's James Cook University is surrounded by the spectacular ecosystems of the rainforests of the Wet tropics, the dry savannahs, and the iconic Great Barrier Reef.
Our unique location enables students from Australia and overseas to study in a diverse physical environment unparalleled by any university in the world.
The University conducts nationally significant and internationally recognised research in areas such as marine sciences, biodiversity, tropical ecology and environments, global warming, tourism, and tropical medicine and public health care in under-served populations.

wikipage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook_University