Australian Geographic — May-June 2017

80 Australian Geographic PHOTO CREDIT, THIS PAGE: CHRIS LANE / FAIRFAX; OPPOSITE PAGE: TASMANIAN TIGER: PRECIOUS LITTLE REMAINS ...

May. June 81 The skinned, preserved body of a thylacine (left) is prepared for display at the National Museum of Australia in 20 ...

PHOTO CREDIT, THIS PAGE: MATTHEW NEWTON; OPPOSITE PAGE: TASMANIAN TIGER: PRECIOUS LITTLE REMAINS BY DAVID MAYNARD AND TAMMY GORD ...

May. June 83 He believes that about 200 Tasmanian tigers exist in three separate groups on the island. anonymity. He describes h ...

Bill Flowers, an artist and member of the three-man Thylacine Research Unit, studies a replica thylacine skull at his home in De ...

PHOTO CREDIT, OPPOSITE PAGE: MATTHEW NEWTON; THIS PAGE: PHILLIP BIGGS / FAIRFAX T HYLACINE SIGHTINGS HAVE been reported in all m ...

S O, ARE THEY unquestionably extinct? Or might a few be holding out in remote bushland somewhere? Unfortunately, despite the hop ...

The preserved body of a three-month-old thylacine pouch pup in a jar, in the hands of Kathryn Medlock, the Tasmanian Museum and ...

The white-plumed grevillea throws its fl owers high so insects and birds can easily fi nd them, but why the fl owers smell of ol ...

May. June 89 STORY BY TIM LOW PHOTOGRAPHY BY JIRI AND MARIE LOCHMAN Close your eyes, let your sense of smell guide you through t ...

90 Australian Geographic NE AFTERNOON IN Tasmania, while driving along a back road, I saw something black jump out and slink int ...

Writer Dame Mary Gilmore portrayed “Australia as she was when she was most Australian”, and, for her, the aroma of the bush form ...

2 92 Australian Geographic and partly as a result of that perception, they are now found widely, from California and China to In ...

OIL ESSENTIALS Australia’s essential oil industry, based largely on compounds that produce the ‘aroma of the bush’, continues to ...

94 Australian Geographic Fortunately, we don’t need much skill at naming smells to enjoy them or to use them for identification ...

4 May. June 95 Curry flowers, endemic to south-western WA, have an aroma that vindicates their name. Moths seen at the flowers m ...

96 Australian Geographic An AGS-supported climbing expedition takes on the first winter ascent of one of Australia’s tallest ver ...

May. June 97 Mick Wright (at left ) and Mark Savage took turns leading the precarious world-fi rst winter- time ascent of Federa ...

98 Australian Geographic N THE DARK belly of the Tasmanian wilderness I slip thigh-deep into glutinous, peaty mud. Desperately, ...

May. June 99 and is located about 90km south-west of Hobart. It’s a 1225m-high, incisor-like, quartzite spire sometimes referred ...