Australian Geographic – July-August 2019

July. August 61 a deep space tracking station at Tidbinbilla, just north of Honeysuckle, which was used to track the Lunar Modul ...

Honeysuckle B 12:55:45 Parkes C 13:02:53 12:54:00 Goldstone A The downlink from Tranquility Base (the mission’s landing site in ...

Images of humankind’s first step on the Moon travelled more than 384,000km almost instantly to be seen live across the Earth. Ta ...

64 Australian Geographic A LL THE WHILE, THE astronauts were suiting up in the Lunar Module. To survive during their Moon walk, ...

July. August 65 their 26m dish was doing so much better than the American team with its 64m dish? Known throughout the NASA netw ...

Fenced reserves and captive breeding programs can bring treasured species back from the brink, but there are limitations. ARKS A ...

July. August 67 Western quolls are adapting to the desert climate in SA, even though they have descended from quolls caught in f ...

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I WATCH AS THE rusty strands break apart in my fingers, knowing full well that this fence in the South Australian desert means l ...

70 Australian Geographic edges at very low tides and entering through holes caused by corrosion or storms. One fox in the reserv ...

July. August 71 A MONG THE ENDANGERED Australian animals that can’t yet be reliably bred are Leadbeater’s possum, the central ro ...

Rather than seeing these little green parrots on a screen, I was taken inside an aviary near Hobart to meet them and my hair lif ...

F ORTUNATELY, THERE HAVE been successes for other species. At Perth Zoo, for example, Peter Mawson is enthusi- astic about the n ...

74 Australian Geographic The STORY BY SAM DUNCAN Indigenous tourism opportunities are growing around Uluru as the deadline appro ...

July. August 75 The climbing chain on Uluru was installed in 1963–64 by a local cattle station owner to attract more visitors to ...

H EAD OUT ON FOOT just north of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park’s Cultural Centre, along the Liru walk, and you’re soon in mulga ...

Uluru’s colours famously shi during the day as the light changes – from golden hues to shades of orange, red, pink and purple. ...

78 Australian Geographic I N 2010 the Uluru-Kata Tjuta NP board of manage- ment forecast in its 10-year management plan that it ...

July. August 79 boardroom; the staff were all pulled in for the announce- ment. It was packed, and people were sitting on the f ...

80 Australian Geographic The appearance of Uluru from above is roughly triangular in shape. The Aboriginal community of Mutitjul ...