Australian_Geographic_-_October_2015_
September–October 2015 61 I moved to Kangaroo Island in 2009 and began work at the lighthouse in 2011. With this job there’s no ...
Winged bliss. With a view east to St Bees and Scawfell islands, blue tiger and glasswing butterflies sup on grass-tree nectar at ...
63 Story by Ashley Hay Photography by Andrew Gregory Down the coast from the Whitsundays are the South Cumberland Islands – nine ...
64 Australian Geographic We had bush-bashed up from Honeymoon Bay, on the island’s south-west, to find these docile marsupials. ...
Feeding time. The blue tiger, top, and clearwing swallowtail are just two of the 40-plus butterfl y species found on the South C ...
66 Australian Geographic WHEN TO GO The dry season for Queensland’s tropical north is May–October, with maximum temperatures ran ...
September–October 2015 67 tracking them. It’s hard to know their fate. The ani- mals that have disappeared seem to be absolutely ...
68 Australian Geographic While diseases such as chalkbrood (which appeared in Queensland in 1993) and the varroa mite (which has ...
69 Keswick Island honey has a deep, dark-red colour and tastes like malted caramel. Head space. Dr Alistair Melzer, above, inspe ...
which the foundations of the mainland are made.” Of the Cumberlands he noted particularly the high peaks and the “rocky cliffs a ...
September–October 2015 71 FIND more spectacular island imagery online at: http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/issue128 AUSTRA ...
72 Come on a privileged journey into a remote part of Australia where few outsiders have ever stepped. Story and Photography by ...
73 Craggy kingdom. North of Pukatja, a constellation of ancient granite peaks is the major APY Lands stronghold for the Warru, o ...
74 Australian Geographic There’s a spring in their step as we stride across an open plain near the community of Pipalyatjara. Th ...
September–October 2015 75 Warru warriors. Jacob Mackenzie (left) and Bronson Bennett, near Pipalyatjara – two of 15 rangers work ...
76 Australian Geographic had eight general managers in the past fi ve years. Meanwhile, allegations of sloppy governance have be ...
September–October 2015 77 ANANGU, PITJANTJATJARA AND YANKUNYTJATJARA (APY) LANDS APY Lands covers 103,000sq.km of South Australi ...
78 Australian Geographic Tjala (honey ant) songline, the creation story for this area. “Without that history nothing is sacred,” ...
September–October 2015 79 MARTIN WILLIS/ MINDEN PICTURES ; HONEYEATER: Acanthagenys rufogularis; SKINK: Tiliqua multifasciata– f ...
80 Australian Geographic devastating native vegetation. That, in turn, tears at the cultural fabric of country – the plant commu ...
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