Australian.Geographic_2014_01-02

January–February 2014 81 Laid-back tempo. Nat Bradford (above and far right) a publicist from Ade- laide, walks his kayak throug ...

82 Australian Geographic Dusky leaf-nosed bats (Hipposid- eros ater) are tiny, growing only up to 6.5cm and 11g. They go in sear ...

January–February 2014 83 IT CAN BE extremely hot from October to May and severe sunburn, heat stress and dehydration are risks – ...

84 Australian Geographic and head back to shore or to continue with my fellow paddlers and avoid the humiliation of looking like ...

January–February 2014 85 More likely to run for it. A freshwater crocodile (above) suns itself on the bank; far more cautious th ...

86 Australian Geographic Trade winds The curious fi ve. Kilwa sultanate coins were minted between the 10th and 14th centuries; c ...

January–February 2014 87  M YSTERY AND MAGIC still inhabit the wild places. Few are wilder than the Northern Territory’s Wessel ...

88 Australian Geographic the islands in 2014. We were also hoping to fi nd interesting new artefacts and document the rock art. ...

January–February 2014 89 mornings, some teams would be dropped of along the coast with specifi c targets; at midday the boats wo ...

90 Australian Geographic Richardson’s daughter, Ann Brothers, has recently supplied us with copies of the images and we are tryi ...

January–February 2014 91 across the continent; the northern Wessels were depopulated by it in the mid-1800s and only seasonally ...

92 Australian Geographic P ERHAPS THE MOST spectacular find of the trip to the Wessels was the rock art. Among whales, snakes an ...

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Save $1,000 per person on the ‘Island Odyssey’ expedition from New Zealand to Fiji via the Kermadecs or ‘Birding the Pacific’ vo ...

New Zealand’s Remote Islands 9 - 19 MARCH 2014 Island Odyssey* 2 - 15 APRIL 2014 Birding the Pacific* 16 APRIL – 2 MAY 2014 *COM ...

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OU T BAC K Destination dinosaur China is dinosaur central right now, with more new species found in a typical year here than hav ...

Little known to the outside world, China is home to some of the most spectacular dinosaur museums and fossil sites on Earth. Sto ...

Toothy beauty. This metre-long skull of Allosaur relative Yangchuanosaurus is one of the best preserved skulls of a large carniv ...

190 million years old, from the Late Triassic or Early Jurassic. This makes the mudstones here among the oldest dinosaur deposit ...