Photography Tips
Behind the image: an unusual perspective
AG photographer Nick Rains goes to some unusual lengths to shoot from a different perspective.
Tag: outback
Reader Photos
Flickr photo of the week: Shooting Star
The latest Australian Geographic Flickr group photo of the week.
History & Culture
Along the outback mail run
It’s a long day as outback postie Peter Rowe travels 600 km along the Oodnadatta Track’s mail run.
Science & Environment
Discovering the dinosaurs Down Under
From killers of the freezing Antarctic wastes to titanic herbivores, Australian dinos are being dug up in great numbers.
News
Swarm of unusual locusts descends on NSW
A plague of locusts of a kind not normally found so far south is descending on the central west of New South Wales.
News
Giant asteroid impact found in Aussie outback
Evidence of what may be Australia’s second largest impact crater has turned up on the Queensland-SA border.
News
Aboriginal people buy Uluru resort
The Aboriginal Land Corporation has bought the Ayers Rock Resort for $300 million.
Adventure
Life on the Ghan: the train across Australia
Life finds a tempo all of its own in the sleek cocoon speeding between Darwin and Adelaide.
Destinations
Tips for driving in the Kimberley
Here are 16 tips for driving in the Kimberley that can also be applied to driving in other remote regions of the Australian outback.
Destinations
A five-day drive through the Kimberley
Diana Plater takes us on a drive through typical Kimberley country: gorges, red cliffs, and boab trees.