How Google helped find a lost world
23 April 2014
Image credit: Tom Timberlake
Julian Bayliss found the lost forest of Mount Mabu in Africa with the help of Google tools
In 2005 biologist Dr Julian Bayliss, at Kew Gardens in the UK, discovered Mount Mabu while scouring Google Earth satellite maps of vegetation in Mozambique.
Long isolated by civil war and remote geography, the previously unmapped mountain proved to be covered in dense rainforest and was brimming with new and rare species.
Read the full story in Australian Geographic magazine #120.
