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Antarctica: The final frontier
AG designer Mike Rossi set sail on the AG Society expedition to Antarctica, one of the most isolated and harshest environments on the planet.
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Guide to Litchfield National Park, NT
Litchfield NP is a classic Top End park and shaped by the water which thunders in The Wet
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Pilbara’s Karinji NP: Culture etched in stone
Encompassing 200,000sq.km of some of Earth’s most ancient rocks, Western Australia’s Pilbara region stretches from a coast harbouring ancient human art to an ochre-red inland cut by gorges and waterfalls.
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Fraser Island: A place to experience
Twenty years ago, the world’s largest sand island was inscribed on the World Heritage List, turning this local secret into one of Australia’s must-sees.
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Video: Trekking Hinchinbrook Island’s Thorsborne Trail
This classic trail wends its way through the World Heritage-listed island, with its mangroves, pristine beaches, mountains and dense forest
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Gallery: Litchfield National Park
Litchfield National Park is known for its waterfalls and termite mounds
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GALLERY: Drone images show a new view of Sydney
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a DSLR camera mounted on a drone. Veteran AG photographer Andrew Gregory has taken rare photos of normally inaccessible views of Sydney Harbour using drone technology. Drones or Remote-Piloted Aircraft (RPA) were originally designed for military operations and navigation but are now providing photographers with unique angles and never-before-seen birds-eye views. See the full story in #125 of Australian Geographic.
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Trekking the tropics: Thorsborne Trail, Hinchinbrook
One of Australia’s largest island national parks, Hinchinbrook is located about 6km off the coast of Cardwell and falls within the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. A series of walking tracks allow visitors to explore the island, the longest and most iconic of which is the 32km Thorsborne Trail. With only 40 people allowed on the trail at a time, the it promises solitude, and lets visitors experience the diverse and relatively untouched landscape. See the full story in #125 of Australian Geographic.
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Penola: home to Saint Mary MacKillop
Penola is the southern gateway to the Coonawarra, one of Australia’s oldest winemaking regions, famous for its Cabernet Sauvignon. But the town is perhaps better known as the spiritual birthplace of Australia’s only saint, Mary MacKillop. Mary MacKillop was a nun who, with Father Julian Tenison-Woods, founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart in 1866. The Josephites, an order of nuns, are devoted to helping the poor, and, in their early years, established schools for disadvantaged children. After her death in 1909, moves were made to recognise Mary as a saint, a long process that came to fruition with her canonisation in 2010. See the full story in #125 of Australian Geographic.
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Six of the best places to see platypus
Spotting this duck-billed delight is a lottery, but dusk and dawn are a good bet.