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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S most remarkable pho- tographers, James Francis ‘Frank’ Hurley brou ...
On thin ice: North and South poles 62 Australian Geographic E ncircled by savage seas and capped by thick ice, Antarctica was th ...
Going over and under: Mountains and caves November–December 2015 63 F rom the Great Dividing Range to red desert outcrops, and f ...
64 SEXTANT: STATE LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES; TAYLORS: COURTESY RON AND VAL TAYLOR; COTTEE: COURTESY KAY COTTEE; BUNGAREE: ART G ...
65 WATSON: BRETT COSTELLO / NEWSPIX; BANKS AND COOK: NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY; FLINDERS: ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA; MARTIN ...
66 Taking to the skies: Aviation and space 66 Australian Geographic I n 1894 the first Australian took flight. Lifted by kites, ...
November–December 2015 6767 IN 1982–83 AG’s founder, Dick Smith, became the first person to fly a helicopter solo around the wor ...
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Red dust, gold heart Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory is as gritty as it is charming. And with its swag of multicultural ...
To live in one of Australia’s most isolated towns, 1000km south of Darwin and 500km north of Alice Springs, they become as hard ...
November–December 2015 71 Gold beam. A mine shaft at Tennant Creek’s Battery Hill Mining Centre shines light on the popular tour ...
72 DEVILS MARBLES: ED NORTON / GETTY WHEN TO GO With average daytime maximum temperatures around 25°C, winter is the best time t ...
By 1934 the area had a full-blown gold rush – one of Australia’s last. in Tennant Creek back then, he worked at one of the goldm ...
74 Australian Geographic Creek goddesses. Samantha Konidaris, left, who moved here in 1969 from Greece, shares a walk in her tro ...
Continued page 79 November–December 2015 75 Making a living on this spinifex, buffel grass and floodout country can be tough at ...
76 Australian Geographic Music makers. After a night of calling on the mic at the rodeo, Steve Goddard, left, joins Don Coleman ...
November–December 2015 77 Past insight. Historians Roddy Calvert, left, and Pamela Hodges take a look inside the old Tennant Cre ...
Balancing act. A ringer riding bareback struggles in spectacular style to stay on his bucking ride in the arena at the Tennant C ...
soon. “I’m sick of eating kangaroos. I’m sick of eating turkey. I really want emu. They’re hard to get. They run really fast.” K ...
80 Australian Geographic Safe harbour. With muscles aching from three days of hard paddling and tough conditions on South Georgi ...
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