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.

Putting the record straight

Notes from the field

Australian Geographic

YOUR SAY

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FIRST NATIONS FIRST

Sun sign

Solving an ecological mystery • Ancient Aboriginal knowledge is helping to fill in the missing details of epic migrations made by Australia’s freshwater eel species.

Can fish fall from the sky? • Spend any time travelling in outback Australia and it won’t be long before someone tries to convince you they do.

Not pretty enough? • Nothing tugs at the heart strings quite like a cuddly koala or wombat joey, but few endangered species are this adorable. Most are far less charismatic…by human standards.

Making our Moon

FRED ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS

Traces • The Old Ghan line at William Creek, SA

Oz words

Do fish drink water?

AG podcast is go! • We’ve launched our brand-new podcast series, Talking Australia, featuring conversations with extraordinary Aussies from right around this magnificent country.

Federation Drought • 1895–1903: Australia’s worst drought since European settlement

Temora, NSW • Located almost halfway between Sydney and Melbourne, this 19th-century gold-rush settlement continues today as a vital rural service centre.

Temora timeline

The List

looking up • Glenn Dawes is a co-author of the yearbook Astronomy 2019 Australia (Quasar Publishing)

Water view

Your Society • Australian Geographic Society news and events

Another record-breaking dive

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Small but mighty

Bird Nerd

A fish-eye perspective • Strange visual systems not seen in any other animals have evolved in deep-sea fishes.

Frill seekers • Scientists are discovering why our frillneck lizard has one of the animal world’s most dramatic displays.

Frilly facts

Finding Barclay’s treasure • Retired motor-racing legend Larry Perkins solves a 100-year mystery in the desert.

Honeysuckle Creek • and the little-known heroes of the Moon walk broadcast

Taking the Eagle’s view • Images of humankind’s first step on the Moon travelled more than 384,000km almost instantly to be seen live across the Earth.

AUSTRALIA’S ARKS • Fenced reserves and captive breeding programs can bring treasured species back from the brink, but there are limitations.

The END of the CLIMB • Indigenous tourism opportunities are growing around Uluru as the deadline approaches for the ban on climbing the huge Central Australian rock.

SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT ULURU

GENERATION OF CHANGE • Born into war and violence, Timor-Leste’s millennials are shaping the new country’s future.

TROUBLED WATERS • Australia and Timor-Leste both claim ownership of the sea border between them, an area known as the Timor Gap, which contains highly prized oil and gas fields worth many billions of dollars.

TIMELINE OF TIMOR-LESTE

OLD TOWN NEW PROSPECTS • After casting off its industrial past, Queenstown, Tasmania, is emerging as a destination for nature lovers and artists.

5 NATURE-BASED EXPERIENCES NEAR QUEENSTOWN

WEST COAST WILDERNESS RAILWAY

Taking the Eyre • Nailing the perfect shot of Lake Eyre in flood isn’t easy,...