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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.

Old Town New Prospects

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

Taking The Eyre

Nailing the perfect shot of Lake Eyre in flood isn’t easy, even with a bird’s-eye view, but expert tuition helps a group of keen shutterbugs zone in on the essentials of this rare spectacle.

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.

Honeysuckle Creek

and The Little-known Heroes Of The Moon Walk Broadcast

Frill Seekers

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

Finding Barclay's Treasure

Retired motor-racing legend Larry Perkins solves a 100-year mystery in the desert.

Generation Of Change

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

Australia's Arks

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

Skiing The Back Country

Leave behind the manicured slopes used by most skiers and head for the valleys and peaks of Main Range in Kosciuszko National Park for an exhilarating three-day off-piste adventure.

Fabled Fortune

Since its purported discovery more than 120 years ago, Lasseter’s Reef, a fabled gold-rich outback quartz vein, has eluded both fortune-hunters and researchers.

Spice Of Life

Follow the heady scent of nutmeg and cloves north of Australia and west of New Guinea to explore the exotic Maluku Islands of Indonesia.

Symbol Of The Kimberley

What are the origins of Western Australia’s iconic boab tree, whose only living relatives survive far away in Africa?

The Duke Of Ed Marches On

After six decades Down Under, this adventure program continues to rise.

Finding Flinders

Archaeologists solve a 200-year mystery in central London by uncovering the remains of revered explorer Matthew Flinders, who led the first known circumnavigation of Australia.

Creating A Super-Park

The forests of Victoria’s Central Highlands are a picturesque greenbelt crucial to Melbourne’s water supply and could soon be included in a huge new national park.

Banjo, Revisited

AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC’S launch cover image has been reimagined as a symbol of conservation for our 150th celebration issue by contemporary Australian conservation wildlife artist Nathan Ferlazzo.

The Rise Of Eco-Grief

Worry about climate change is so common, it’s sparked a new mental-health epidemic: ecological grief. But there are two groups of people proving hope is another option.

Southern Exposure

The 2017 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year, Justin Gilligan, turns his creative eye to the uniqueicy world of beauty and contrast that he found at the end of the Earth on an expedition to East Antarctica.

The Last Muster

The end of an era was perfectly captured by Grenville Turner on a classic outback cattle station.

For The Love Of Frogs

Two new research tools are supporting a groundswell of public interest that could make a difference to the future of Australian frogs, which are facing tough times.

Impressions Of The Past

Australian scientists studying the smallest known dinosaur footprints, left by a creature the size of a sparrow, also discovered the largest, left by a dinosaur 700,000 times as heavy.

City-Slicker Dragons

Australia’s water dragons are being changed by urban life.

Sparkling Seas Explained

A sinister truth lies behind the rise of beautiful night-time blooms of bioluminescent plankton.

Top End Beginnings

It can take a while to really get under the skin of the tropical Northern Territory, but you can make a good start with a few carefully planned days spent within cooee of Darwin.

From The Lowest To The Highest

“The brakes are smoking!” I shouted to Duncan over the noise of screaming disc brakes as I tried to control a 75km/h speed wobble on the Alpine Way above Khancoban, near the New South Wales–Victoria border. I was doing my best to hold the tandem-trike steady with my one functioning hand while trying to let my blind stoker (the rear cyclist on a tandem bike) know what was going on. I was his eyes, he was my legs and we were more than 2000km into an adaptive human-powered journey that would take us from the continent’s lowest point to its highest.

Under The Canopy

A conservation initiative dedicated in the name of The Queen harnesses the global power of the Commonwealth to arrest the decline of the world’s native forests.

Silence, Please!

Our wide, open and very radio-quiet outback is radioastronomy heaven.

Against The Odds

The world’s smallest penguin has made one of Australia’s largest cities its home.

A Profound Life Of Icy Wonder

Our planet’s most inhospitable continent is dotted with landmarks bearing Syd Kirkby’s name.