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Whitsunday residents breathed a collective sigh of relief as the clock struck 12 last night, bidding good riddance to 2020.
But last year wasn't all hand sanitiser and social distancing.
Here are some of the biggest stories that made headlines in 2020.
Curious find at Bowen crime scene
After numerous police specialists spent hours investigating reports of a body found wrapped in a blanket near Bowen, the investigation ended with an odd find.
Specialists from the district and local Bowen Police officers attended the scene on a walking track off the Bruce Highway near Bowen on May 19.
They began a land search after a member of the public phoned police believing they had discovered a dead body.