Showing posts with the label Australia

Where Do The World’s Oceans Meet?

Sep 7, 2019

Two huge ocean waves clashing. Photo credit: David Bostoc/Shutterstock.com There are five oceans on earth, and all of them are connected w...

Australia’s Mouse Plagues

Jul 29, 2019

Rats and mice are big problems in Australia, especially around the grain-growing regions in the south and in the east. Every few years, mous...

The Mahogany Ship: An Australian Maritime Mystery

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...

How Australia Remembers The World’s Biggest Gold Nugget

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...