Wildlife Safe passage: we can keep koalas safe through urban design …What might be harder to change is the behaviour of humans, in particular those driving cars through these areas. A lot of research has shown that those overly familiar road…
History & Culture Vale Bernard 'Midget' Farrelly …Surf Lifesaving Club, the Duke’s board built on Polynesian heri-tage thought to be more than 1000 years old. 1930s–’50s Known as tooth-picks, hollow, finless plywood boards 16′-18′ (4.8-5.5m) long and…
Reader Photos A little nectar in the gardens …Flickr group. Share your own photography and it could be featured on Australian Geographic online! You can also submit your images to us directly HERE or tag #ausgeo on Instagram….
History & Culture People power …of endurance, too – the 24-hour record stands at 1098km. IN 1986 THE inaugural 24-hour Pedal Prix at the University of South Australia involved a ragtag collection of home-built machines…
Adventure Road trip: Northwest Territories, Canada …lucky enough to tag along with Seeba and Hannah as they led a tour group out to some salt fields not far out of Fort Smith. The whole process of…
Wildlife State of fear: what should we do about sharks in NSW? …the year. But experience from Western Australia shows that shark culls also do not work. Instead, NSW Premier Mike Baird has announced an A$250,000 shark tagging and surveillance program alongside…
Gear Test Bike test: Cell Brunswick 1.0 …manager and bike designer Dave Musgrove has hand-picked the component set, dimensions and even the frame’s tube thicknesses to offer a machine that really defies its $1200 price tag. It’s…
Reader Photos Our top 10 Reader Photos of 2016 …Flickr Group, or by tagging #ausgeo on Instagram. In descending order, here were the 10 most-viewed AG Reader Photos of 2016: 10. Under the wheatbelt sky 15 July 2016 The…
Adventure The North Face turns 50! …North Face introduce the tagline “Expedition Proven,” referencing 10-plus years of the world’s top explorers pushing The North Face gear to higher and higher performance. From Ned Gillete’s 1972 expedition…
News First night parrot fledgling in 100 years spotted in western Queensland …for night parrot research include determining whether there are any more birds in the wider region (other than the Pullen Pullen and Diamantina populations) and capturing and GPS-tagging more night…
