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.

Scaling up

When the skies opened

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Etched by water

South Pole platypus and echidnas

Ocean Eyes on our reef

Accolade for Aussie filmmaker

Place names

Crazy for Elvis

Burgeoning orange bellies

Blobfish beauty reimagined

Wild Diary

Music to dolphin ears

Wombat love • One of our most endangered marsupials has been pulled back from the edge of extinction for now, but more is needed to save this extraordinary animal.

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Solving a sea monster mystery

How much energy do you use? • Geoff Ebbs outlines the impact of domestic energy on our personal carbon footprint, and offers some tips on how to reduce it, in the second instalment of his Eco Graphic series.

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Eureka Stockade • 1854: Goldminers stage a rebellion at Ballarat.

COVID’s ecological cost • Pandemic-related pollution is clogging the environment, with potentially deadly consequences.

A Martian mirage?

Looking up

The 1954 royal tour • In her 70 years as queen, Elizabeth II has visited Australia on 16 occasions, but with changing attitudes to the British monarchy, there has never been a royal tour quite like the first.

Great balls of fire • Tim the Yowie Man’s column on the unusual phenomenon of ball lightning ignited a spate of firsthand accounts.

Bird poo hue

Oz Words

The awards are back ! • Australian Geographic Society news and events

Society update • These are some of the projects to receive Society funding this year.

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Finding Endurance • Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship, immortalised in Frank Hurley’s famous photographs, is rediscovered beneath the frigid waters of the Weddell Sea.

Underground art • Buried in a eucalypt-clad hill beside the Shoalhaven River, the new Bundanon Art Museum safeguards some of the nation’s most precious artworks from flood and fire.

The art of construction • Building the $34 million Bundanon Art Museum was a masterclass in environmental design.

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Immersed in Martuwarra • A force of nature, an ancestral being, this Kimberley river has shaped the people and landscape of northern Australia since life began here.

The Dog Fence • Carving a 5614km incision through remote inland Australia, the Dingo Barrier Fence has for around 70 years divided the ecology of a large area of the continent, while providing a lifeline to the nation’s sheep industry.

Drylands

Life on the wire • Photographer Adam Ferguson travelled the fence in search of the people whose remote lives and livelihoods depend on it.

Making sense of the brain • George Paxinos holds god-like status among neuroscientists worldwide, yet this Australian researcher’s long-held passion for the environment is behind what he sees as his greatest achievement.

Escape to the country • After more than two years of lockdowns and flexible work arrangements, many people have sought new pastures. Meet the city dwellers who’ve swapped cramped urban spaces for expansive country vistas.

A country that never stays put

On the move • Two years of COVID-19 has...