Australian_Geographic_-_February_2016_

Immortalised by poet Banjo Paterson, mountain brumbies now have the run of grassy Currango Plain, in Kosciuszko NP. But even Pat ...

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January. February 83 O NE THING WORKING in their favour, however, is that Australia’s wild horses have proven themselves adaptab ...

DEAN SAFFRON 84 84 Australian Geographic ...

30 YEARS OF AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC Ever y pict ure tells a story Hidden behind the lens, AG’s skilled photographers have travelle ...

Peter Aitchison Dooy Holmes AG 7, 1987 86 Australian Geographic T HE COHORT OF photographers commissioned to shoot a major featu ...

January. February 87 PHOTOGRAPHY IS often like a treasure hunt where a keen eye, patience and time in the field will bring the r ...

Mark Spencer THIS IMAGE of Rapunzel’s Tresses (also known as The Shaving Brush) stands out in my memory for its documentary valu ...

Bill Bachman King Island AG 95, 2009 THE BOATHOUSE, a colourful wooden building nestling beside the harbour in Currie, King Isla ...

Dean Saffron IT WAS WITH a mixture of trepidation and curiosity that I was welcomed aboard the Diana, a deep-sea trawler, by her ...

David Hancock I WAS WORKING WITH herpetologist Arthur White on a feature about the endangered green and gold bell frog. I wanted ...

IT WAS MY FIRST Job for AG – a story about the people that drive the nation’s huge road trains. We’d arrived at the Hay Plain in ...

HOW CAN ANYONE be charmed by a cane toad? I can. That’s because cane toads are Queenslanders and I’ve always had a soft spot for ...

94 Australian Geographic TASMANIAN PARKS AND WILDLIFE SERVICE; MAP: BRITISH MUSEUM The wrecking of one of the first merchant ves ...

One of the Sydney Cove’s two main anchors and a cannon were recovered in 1978, during a preliminary survey of the wreck by marin ...

96 Australian Geographic I T’S EASY TO SPOT a born-and-bred Furneaux Islander. In 30-knot winds locals will walk upright. Visito ...

January. February 97 In 1797 the crew set out from Calcutta, India, bound for the new colony at Port Jackson. They took a circui ...

98 Australian Geographic STATE LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES It was one of the first merchant ships to set out for remote Port Jack ...

5. Tobacco Excavation of the stern revealed remains of a cask with about 3kg of processed tobacco rounded into plugs for transpo ...

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