Australian Geographic - 09.2019 - 10.2019

September. October 81 1420 VERTEBRATE SPECIES THREATENED 100,000sq.km 700,000sq.km PUBLIC of Australia’s native forests survive ...

82 Australian Geographic Queensland, including Townsville, earlier this year, was worse than it should have been due to forest c ...

September. October 83 L ESS THAN HALF OF Australia’s remaining native forests are on government-owned land and the concept of le ...

84 Australian Geographic PHOTO CREDITS, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: KERRY TRAPNELL / THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY; AUSCAPE/CONTRIBUTOR/GETTY; ...

the responsibility and opportunity to restore our degraded land- scapes is in the hands of our farmers,” says Kate Smolski, CEO ...

86 Australian Geographic STORY BY NICK BURNINGHAM 86 Australian Geographic PUTTING AUSTR A LI A ON THE MAP Dutch navigators had ...

September September .. October 87 October 87 This 25m, 110-tonne replica of the jacht Duyfken was launched in 1999 to shed light ...

Created by English cartographer Emanuel Bowen, this is the earliest known English printed map of Australia. It was published in ...

September. October 89 However, the myth persists that early Dutch knowledge of Australia – which has been home to Aboriginal Aus ...

90 Australian Geographic Janszoon explored first to the south, then turned around at a headland he called Cabo Keerweer (Cape Ke ...

September. October 91 I N 1602 SEVERAL rival Dutch trading companies were amalgamated into the Dutch East India Company, offi ci ...

92 Australian Geographic Willem Janszoon Ship: Duyfken Region: Cape York, Qld. Gulf of Carpentaria Dirk Hartog Ship: Eendracht R ...

September September .. October 93 October 93 to the Indies was being discussed, but had not yet been offi cially decreed. The so ...

94 Australian Geographic They disentangled themselves from the reefs and headed south before turning towards Cape York, where th ...

September. October 95 most of the Gulf of Carpentaria’s shores and all the way along northern Australia to North West Cape, show ...

96 Australian Geographic Victor Vescovo (standing) plans the South Sandwich Trench Dive in the Southern Ocean with his team (lef ...

September. October 97 REACHING DEEP Texan explorer and industrialist Victor Vescovo this year dived deeper beneath the ocean tha ...

O N 28 APRIL, after three years of intensive prepara- tion, Victor Vescovo fi nally reached what’s now the deepest-known part of ...

September. October 99 Amphipods swarm over bait at the bottom of the South Sandwich Trench. DSSV Pressure Drop, a dedicated scie ...

E ARTH’S DEEP OCEAN trenches have been, and are still being, formed as the planet’s tectonic plates crash into each other: one s ...