Australian Geographic

Australian Geographic, Australia’s premier geographic journal, brings you the best of the country from those who know it best. Discover Australia’s rich cultural heritage, its beautiful landscapes, its unique and diverse plants and wildlife, and explore outback towns and the true-blue characters who call them home.

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DEFINING THE SOUTHERN OCEAN • A degree of latitude goes a long way when it comes to charting oceans.

1953: FLUORIDE ADDED TO AUSSIE WATER • Beaconsfield, in Tasmania, becomes the first Australian town to have its water supply treated with fluoride to combat tooth decay.

OUT OF THIS WORLD!

Talking Australia • Subscribe and never miss an EVENTS episode of our entertaining podcast.

BIRDING BASICS • Connect with the birdlife around you and add your daily observations to the Aussie Backyard Bird Count in October.

NATURE BOOK WEEK • 6–12 September

THE DAY THE EARTH SHOOK • Five decades ago, a powerful earthquake buckled and folded a 37km stretch of WA’s wheatbelt landscape.

REMEMBERING • After two passenger jets crashed into the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, many rushed to the scene to help. Responders toiled around the clock to search for victims and then to clean up the dust and twisted steel aftermath of the disaster. New Yorkers were determined to revitalise their beloved city by returning to their homes or resuming work and school. Twenty years on, many of them are sick.

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SPACE IN A SPIN • The tendril-like strands of thousands of galaxies spin slowly in this artist’s impression of the ‘cosmic web’, from which our universe was built.

LOOKING UP

WHEN RODENTS RUN WILD • It’s not unusual to see introduced mice reaching plague proportions in Australia. The phenomenon has been happening since the late 1800s.

WILD AUSTRALIA DIARY ENTRIES

NATURE FESTIVAL, ADELAIDE • Conservation charity Trees For Life celebrates its 40th birthday at a vibrant festival of nature to be held in Adelaide this spring.

Once more onto the bridge

A tough journey to the deep south

AG SOCIETY FUNDRAISER RUFOUS BETTONGS

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Poison with purpose • The biggest saviour for many of Australia’s endangered native species is turning out to be a deadly toxin.

Close to home • Baiting feral animals with 1080 in Australia is tightly controlled in all states.

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THE GREAT INLAND WAY • Take your foot off the accelerator and explore outback Queensland on one of Australia’s great road trips.

TIMING YOUR TRIP

THE COBB & CO. WAY – SURAT TO YULEBA

THE GEMFIELDS – EMERALD TO RUBYVALE

Billion-dollar fish • Tuna are the gold of the ocean, and because certain species are so highly sought after, they’ve become synonymous with overfishing and modern slavery. But some populations that were teetering on the edge of total wipeout seem to be making a tentative comeback. Are things finally turning around for these fisheries?

From the ashes • Life is being renewed on Fraser Island (K’gari), off the Queensland coast, after catastrophic bushfires razed more than half the World Heritage-listed island.

Fraser Island (K’gari)

All in a day’s work • It was a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire, for tourism professional Greg Slade.

THE HYPE ABOUT HYDROGEN H2 • Could the most abundant chemical element in the universe – hydrogen – be the answer to sustainable energy production...