Biodiversity
Winners: Australian Geographic Society’s Awards for Nature 2024
Meet the winners of our first awards program wholly dedicated to the planet.
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Sulawesi sensations
There are worlds within worlds and marvels untold waiting to be experienced on Indonesia’s remote islands.
Nature & Wildlife
The enchanted isles
Long isolated, undiscovered and uninhabited, the Galápagos offers a rare window into a time when nature reigned supreme.
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Tom Robinson shares epic tales from first leg of world record-breaking solo journey
The 23-year-old Queenslander has successfully completed the first leg of his world record breaking attempt to become the youngest person to row solo across the Pacific Ocean from South America to Australia.
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Heroes all: Meet the 2022 Australian Geographic Society Gala Award winners
Seven awards have been presented to seven amazing Australians.
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Australian Geographic Society Gala Awards 2022: Adventurer of the Year, Lisa Blair
In 2022, Sydney-based sailor Lisa Blair claimed the record for the fastest solo and unassisted circumnavigation of Antarctica. Departing from Albany, Western Australia, on 21 February, the non-stop voyage took Lisa 92 days, 18 hours and 21 minutes to complete – beating the previous world record by 10 days.
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Australian Geographic Society Gala Awards 2022: Lifetime of Conservation, John Wamsley OAM
Utter the name John Wamsley these days and you’ll barely raise an eyebrow. Mention instead the man in the cat-hat and the penny invariably drops.
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Australian Geographic Society Gala Awards 2022: Lifetime of Adventure, Dr Geoff Wilson
Dr Geoff Wilson’s life has been anything but ordinary. Born in Kitale, Kenya, Geoff and his family fled to Queensland in 1975 to escape the encroaching terror of Idi Amin’s dictatorship.
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Australian Geographic Society Gala Awards 2022: Young Adventurer of the Year, Gabby Kanizay
It was during a family holiday to California’s Yosemite National Park in 2017 that Gabby Kanizay, then 14 years old, became enthralled by the idea of mountaineering, climbing and adventure.
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Australian Geographic Society Gala Awards 2022: Spirit of Adventure, Sophie Matterson
As Australia bunkered down in lockdown, Sophie Matterson was experiencing a different type of social isolation.