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 Duke Of Ed Marches On

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

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.

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.

Old Town New Prospects

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

Off To The Races

A rural community embraces its diversity with a festival celebrating culture…and camels.

Urban Battler

The grey-headed flying-fox is facing increasing threats and an uncertain future.

Mystery In The Desert

With all the ingredients of a thriller government cover-ups, local rivalry and intrigue the story of the Marree Man geoglyph in South Australia is enduringly fascinating.

Rural Mural

A series of giant artworks on old grain silos ishelping reinvigorate a string of small towns in the Wimmera-Mallee region of western Victoria.

Urban Bandicoots

Its time we developed a new appreciation for these misunderstood and much-maligned marsupials.

Seeing With Their Ears

The tiniest bat and mightiest toothed whale navigate and hunt in darkness using echolocation. Even some humans have this remarkable skill.

Desert Brushstrokes

In the Badlands of South Australia, Mother Nature has painted the ragged outback landscape in bold and ancient colours.

Nature's Realm

Kangaroo Valley, in the Shoalhaven region of New South Wales, is a stunning getaway within easy reach of Sydney and Canberra.

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.

Sparkling Seas Explained

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

Against The Odds

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

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.

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.

Transcontinental Grandeur

Covering 4352km and four days, across Australia’s arid inland, the Indian Pacific is one of the world’s most celebrated train journeys.

Putting Shark Attacks In Perspective

Shark attacks are big news and hearing of them in the media can often prompt a moment’s hesitation when entering the water. But the chances of being killed by a shark are extremely small, and the odds will only improve further as we better understand the factors that motivate these tragic events.

Moments In Time

Boodjamulla National Park, in north-western Queensland, has a vibrant present and a past that stretches back into deep time.

Newcastle: A City Reborn

Australia’s former steel city is being stoked back to life, fuelled by a mix of entrepreneurial flair, community spirit, booming health and education sectors, and, of course, money.

Breaking Through To E.T.

The search for intelligent life beyond our planet, and even our own Solar System, is stepping up. What might it find? And what could any discoveries mean for humankind?

Northern Exposure

Talk to any keen road tripper about their bucket list of Aussie journeys and “doing the Gibb” will invariably come up. That’s the Gibb River Road, which transects the wild and remote Kimberley region of north-west Western Australia.

Finding Barclay's Treasure

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

Australia's Arks

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

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.

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.