Australian Geographic — May-June 2017

60 Australian Geographic Points of interest 1 Behana Gorge 2 Yungaburra 3 Babinda Boulders 4 Mount Hypipamee NP 5 Nandroya Falls ...

May. June 61 MAP BY WILL PRINGLE The cassowary is an important rainforest gardener, spreading the seeds of rainforest trees. Som ...

62 Australian Geographic an outcrop that Sam’s offsider Dom Godwin calls Paradise Pool. “Some people say they like to live life ...

May. June 63 Negotiating a tricky rock-hopping exercise in Behana Gorge, where the canyoning experience is totally immersive. Th ...

64 Australian Geographic Clockwise from top left: An Australian giant ‘rainforest’ centipede (Ethmostigmus rubripes) crawls out ...

May. June 65 W E’VE BEEN told that if you want to experience it all in the Wet Tropics – a stunning vista, rugged waterfall, rai ...

66 Australian Geographic T HE FINAL BLAZE of the setting sun is a cue for frogs and other wildlife to begin stirring to feed. Al ...

May. June 67 Wildlife carer Margit Cianelli with Nelson, one of four tree kangaroos currently in her care at her personal sanctu ...

68 Australian Geographic Coral Expeditions II attaches to an exclusive permanent mooring on remote Nathan Reef. From here divers ...

May. June 69 Coral crusades Enjoy privileged access to the world’s most famed marine habitat with this unique voyage around the ...

70 Australian Geographic F OR MOST VISITORS to our greatest natural icon, inter- actions with the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) take ...

May. June 71 A greenfin parrotfish lazily swims up; I startle a common octopus climbing a coral. Suddenly, there it is! We’re su ...

72 Australian Geographic W E PILE BACK onto Coral Expeditions II and four hours later are once again pulling on fins, masks and ...

GR EAT BAR R IER R EEF EXPEDITION The AG Society has joined with Coral Expeditions to create a hosted expedition specially desig ...

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CL I FROM TOP LEFT: XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX A N EN DLESS QU EST The Tasmanian tiger is officially extinct. Yet as biologists investiga ...

PHOTO CREDIT, OPPOSITE PAGE: MATTHEW NEWTON; THIS PAGE: THE MAMMALS OF AUSTRALIA BY JOHN GOULD t about nine o’clock on a 1993 sp ...

Biologist Nick Mooney sets up a trail camera in bushland for one of his regular Tasmanian wildlife surveys. Nick, a thylacine ex ...

PHOTO CREDITS, THIS PAGE: DAVID MAYNARD, FROM TASMANIAN TIGER: PRECIOUS LITTLE REMAINS BY DAVID MAYNARD AND TAMMY GORDON (QUEEN ...

May. June 79  A LTHOUGH THE LAST captive thylacine was recorded as being named Benjamin, it seems this wasn’t the case. A man na ...