Unusual Drawbridge Railway Crossing in Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 1, 2016
South of Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia, are a number of drawbridge-like crossings that carry 2-feet tracks of the Sugar Cane Railway ...
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The Boab Prison Trees of Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 18, 2016
The Australian baobab tree, a relative to the baobabs of Madagascar and mainland Africa, is a large tree with a big swollen trunk that resem...
Mount Conner: The Rock That Fools You
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2016
One of Australia’s most recognizable natural icon is a large sandstone rock formation called Ayer’s Rock or Uluru, located about 450 km away...
The Rabbit Proof Fence of Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 1, 2016
Stretching from north to south across Western Australia, dividing the entire continent into two unequal parts, is a flimsy barbed-wire fence...
The Most Visually Impressive Impact Craters on Earth
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 3, 2016
It is estimated that the earth’s surface is struck by about 500 meteorites a year, but only about 5 or 6 are large enough to be detected by ...
Tarkhan Dress: The World’s Oldest Woven Garment
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 2, 2016
This tattered V-neck linen shirt, currently on display in the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, is the world’s oldest woven garment...
The Asbestos Ghost Town of Wittenoom
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 1, 2016
One of the most beautiful areas in the Pilbara region of Western Australia is also one of the most dangerous. About eighty years ago, blue a...
The Mysterious Marree Man of South Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 3, 2016
In June 1998 a local pilot flying over the remote South Australian desert discovered an enormous drawing of an Aboriginal man hunting with a...
Australian Farmer Fights Soil Erosion With Land Art
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 29, 2016
After a recent bushfire consumed all vegetation on his land, a South Australian farmer Brian Fischer decided to etch a gigantic geometric pa...
World’s Most Beautiful And Outstanding Piers
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 20, 2016
Piers were originally built for the purpose of getting people and cargo from the boat to the shore without getting their feet wet, before th...
The Wedding Cake Rock, Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 9, 2016
The Wedding Cake Rock is an unusual geological formation located just north of Marley Beach near Bundeena within the Royal National Park, in...
The Painted Cliffs of Maria Island
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 29, 2015
The beautifully patterned sandstone rocks of Painted Cliffs are one of Maria island’s most popular attraction. The mountainous island locate...
Places Where Three Time Zones Meet
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2015
When Italian mathematician Quirico Filopanti first sounded the idea of time zones in his book Miranda! published in 1858, he proposed that ...
The Floating Forest of Homebush Bay, Sydney
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 5, 2015
The affluent suburb of Homebush Bay on the south bank of the Parramatta River, in the inner west of Sydney, was once the dumping ground for ...
Try Galileo’s Gravity Experiments From The Leaning Tower of Gingin
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 27, 2015
In the late 16th century, famed Italian scientist Galileo Galilei supposedly dropped balls of different weights from the Leaning Tower of Pi...
A Tsunami of Shelf Cloud Over Sydney
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 14, 2015
For the last few days, social media is awash with photographs of an extraordinary roll of cloud that has acquired the moniker of “cloud tsun...
‘Sculpture By The Sea’ 2015 on Bondi Beach
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2015
Over 100 sculptures were erected on Sydney's Bondi Beach, transforming the 2km coastal walk from Bondi to Tamarama into a temporary scul...
The World’s Most Depressing Place Names
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 26, 2015
There are some really sad places on earth. Countries torn by war and violence. Countries reeling under poverty. Those places are truly depre...
The Ninety Mile Beach, Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 8, 2015
There are a lot of long and straight things in Australia: a 145-km stretch of road without a turning, a 478-km stretch of dead-straight rai...
The Morning Glory Clouds of Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 28, 2015
The Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia is home to one of the world's most extraordinary meteorological phenomenon. From late Sep...
