The Mahogany Ship: An Australian Maritime Mystery
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 20, 2019
One of Australia's most enduring maritime mysteries is a shipwreck known as the “Mahogany Ship”. It was first spotted in 1836 by a party...
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How Australia Remembers The World’s Biggest Gold Nugget
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 8, 2019
On February 1869, two British prospectors, John Deason and Richard Oates, were digging for gold in central Victoria, Australia, when their p...
SS Warrimoo: The Ship That Missed New Year’s Eve But Gained Two Centuries
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 4, 2019
The story that follows supposedly happened more than a hundred years ago on the eve of New Year. It spanned two centuries, yet was over in a...
The Sydney Hospital Built By Rum
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 17, 2018
Two hundred years ago, Sydney was little more than a convict camp in desperate need of infrastructure, supplies and a hospital. The long jou...
The Lighthouse That Wrecked More Ships Than it Saved
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2018
For more than forty years a lighthouse stood on a large anvil-shaped peninsula jutting into the Tasman Sea near Jervis Bay, in southern Aust...
The Story Behind Sydney’s ‘Eternity’ Graffiti
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 20, 2018
For over twenty five years, from 1930 to 1956, the people of Sydney woke up each day to a one-word sermon—”Eternity”—handwritten in yellow c...
Lake George: The Lake That Vanishes
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2018
About 40 kilometers north-east of Canberra, in Australia, right next to the Federal Highway is a large lake, but you might not always see it...
The Burning Mountain of New South Wales, Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2018
Approximately 224 km north of Sydney, just off the New England Highway, in New South Wales, Australia, is a hill that has been burning for t...
Anna Creek: A Cattle Station Bigger Than Israel
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 11, 2018
In Australia, cattle stations—which is the equivalent of an American ranch—tend to be unimaginably large, so large that some of them are big...
A Garden In A Sinkhole
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 4, 2017
The region in the southeast of South Australia, near Mount Gambier, is littered with many volcanic and karst features such as volcanic crate...
The Tumuli Lava Blisters
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 15, 2017
In the relatively flat Harman Valley, located between Wallacedale and Byaduk, south of Mount Napier in Victoria, Australia, are peculiar roc...
The Silo Art Trail in Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 22, 2017
For more than a hundred years, grain silos doting the plains across the Wimmera-Mallee region of Victoria, Australia, have defined the state...
The “Lone Pine” Trees Growing Across Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 22, 2017
Many war memorials across Australia have pine trees growing in their grounds. These trees are called “Lone Pines”, and their ancestry can be...
The Melbourne Building With A Face
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 3, 2017
Some people see faces in everything—in clouds, in the arrangement of faucets on a sink, on a power socket, and on the facade of a building. ...
The Lava Tubes of Undara Volcanic National Park
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2017
In the vast savannah of Australia’s North Queensland, 300 km southwest from the city of Cairns, lies the Undara Volcanic National Park where...
The Dolerite Columns of Coastal Tasmania
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2017
The coastline of the southern Tasmania, in Australia, is composed of stunning rock columns that protrude up to 300 meters from the sea level...
The World’s Smallest Mountain And Mountain Range
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 28, 2017
That little bump ahead, just beyond the fork in the road, is the world’s smallest registered mountain. Located in Australia’s low-lying Terr...
The Orange Rocks of Bay of Fires
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 1, 2016
The Bay of Fires, on the northeastern coast of Tasmania in Australia, is a large bay that extends for about 30 km from Binalong Bay in the s...
The Giant Eucalyptus of Australia
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 19, 2016
Most eucalyptus trees are moderately-sized but come to their native land, Australia, and you will be surprised at how tall these trees can g...
Stromatolites of Hamelin Pool
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 1, 2016
What appear to be rocks submerged in the hyper-saline water of Hamelin Pool at the base of Shark Bay in the Gascoyne region of Western Austr...
