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BLUE LAKE Yan Zhang, New South Wales It was a cold morning and when the first light appeared we witnessed a dramatic change of t ...

ROAD TO ICE Marcus Arnold, Canterbury, New Zealand Antarctica is often seen to be untouched and pristine, and rightfully so. How ...

OLDEST OF THEM ALL THROMBOLITE (MICROBIALITE) COMMUNITY STATUS: CRITICALLY ENDANGERED David Rennie, Western Australia Thrombolit ...

64 Australian Geographic FIRST LIGHT ON LITTLE HORN Luke Tscharke, New South Wales The first direct rays of an autumn sunrise re ...

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66 WINTER’S EMBRACE SNOW GUMS, Eucalyptus pauciflora Tim Wrate, New South Wales The conditions on this day were flat and uninter ...

ICY LOOKS EASTERN GREY KANGAROO, Macropus giganteus Charles Davis, New South Wales I found this female eastern grey kangaroo hig ...

CAMOUFLAGED EEL MORAY EEL, FAMILY: MURAENIDAE Justin Gilligan, New South Wales The Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve offers so ...

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C Story by Quentin Chester Photography by Don Fuchs The lush and much-loved mountains of Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges are an acce ...

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72 Australian Geographic D AYBREAK APPROACHES at Burkes Lookout in the Dandenong Ranges. This opening in the stringybarks on Mt ...

July–August 2015 73 Walk the line. Fo r the past eight years former Puffing Billy driver Peter Stowell has presided as stationma ...

74 July - August 2015 THE DANDENONG RANGES 74 Australian Geographic ...

July–August 2015 75 POINTS OF INTEREST WHEN TO GO The Dandenong Ranges are a year-round destina- tion. Spring and autumn are the ...

76 Australian Geographic outpourings have weathered into lofty ridges and fertile, deep-soil valleys – seriously good earth that ...

July–August 2015 77 Filigree sentinels. Smooth tree ferns mark the start of the walking-track descent to Olinda Falls, deep with ...

78 Australian Geographic and sheep farmer Jeremy Francis has conjured a beguil- ing English-style multi-roomed garden from the s ...

July–August 2015 79 Axis all eras. Evoking classic English style, the lush borders of Cloudehill garden's major axis lure the ey ...

Story by Natsumi Penberthy Photography by Randy Larcombe As the managers of majestic river red gums on the Murray River know, it ...