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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Scaling up

Sails and snails

Australian Geographic

AG Your Say • March–April 2023

Talkb@ck • In December 2022, we shared one of the greatest shows on Earth, the annual Christmas Island red crab migration. Kylie Chatfield snapped this image of this season’s babies returning to shore. Here’s what you had to say.

Road to nowhere

Ocean celebrated in independent film festival

Megafauna discovery offers food for thought

Wattle genome decoded

Place names

Our Country: 360° Cinematic Experience arrives in Brisbane

Anzac biscuits retrieved from the archives

Moonbird Festival 2023

WA total solar eclipse

World Science Festival Brisbane

Wild Diary

Echidnas blow snot bubbles to stay cool

Earth Hour

A stand against extinction • In a landmark agreement, the world’s nations have agreed to set aside 30 per cent of the planet for nature by 2030.

TACKLING TORTOISESHELL TRAFFICKING • A new DNA database that can link tortoiseshell products to their geographic origin will become a powerful new tool in fighting the poaching of this critically endangered species.

Introduction of cane toads • 1935: Cane toads brought to Australia to control Queensland’s cane beetles.

Mahogany Ship

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

Happy Birthday, Sydney Opera House • Half a century ago one of the world’s most recognisable buildings was opened.

Worm blob

Oz Words

Supercomputer pinpoints a meteorite’s origin

Looking up

Total solar eclipse

In praise of grand adventures

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A KIMBERLEY CORNUCOPIA • A rich diversity of snails in north-west Western Australia is sublime evidence of evolution in action.

LAND SNAILS OF THE KIMBERLEY • Between Boongaree, Bigge and Augustus islands alone, 50 snail species have been described, and it’s likely there are more to be discovered. This small selection shows the ways in which some have adapted to their local environment.

Lavene Ngatokorua • Adnyamathanha and Wangkangurru, South Australia

DOWN-UNDER ORIGIN FOR ALL MODERN MAMMALS • In new Australian research that challenges hundreds of years of scientific dogma, mammal evolution began in the Southern, not Northern, Hemisphere.

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FREEDOM IN THE DEEP • As participation in freediving reaches new levels, we look at what’s driving the sport’s growing popularity.

FREEDIVING AND THE HUMAN BODY • Water is about 800 times denser than air. How is the human body affected by the pressure this creates at extreme depths?

Freediving across cultures • Cultures from around the world have practised freediving in various forms for millennia.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN • Join us on the bitumen and backroads for the second part of our adventure along the old Hume Highway, as we travel from Gundagai to Melbourne and beyond.

Perfect pit stops • The second half of our journey along the old Hume takes us from Gundagai to Melbourne – and we carry on further to Geelong. The full length of the highway stretches...