A cruise passenger was found dead on a remote island after being abandoned there.

Suzanne Rees, 80, from Sydney, was on the second day of a Coral Expeditions cruise circumnavigating Australia when she disembarked the Coral Adventurer at Lizard Island on Saturday.

The ship, operated by Coral Expeditions, reportedly left the island around five hours before realising Suzanne was missing.

A search crew was launched and her body was spotted by helicopter a day later.

Suzanne’s daughter, Katherine, said her mother fell ill on an organised climb on the island and escorted herself back down the mountain. ‘Then the ship left, apparently without doing a passenger count. At some stage in that sequence, or shortly after, mum died, alone,’ she told The Australian.

Her body was found around 50 metr

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