Travel across Australia by rail on a journey of continental proportions — from Sydney to Perth via outback ghost towns, drag ...

This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... trunk and a long tongue like that of a giraffe. In Western Australia another ambiguous rock-art site shows what ...

Towering red and gold sandstone cliffs, ancient rock paintings, long stretches of red dirt roads, surprising greenery, meandering river systems and a wealth of wildlife… Australia’s outback is a ...

This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Walker to a radio telescope deep in the outback of Western Australia. The telescope, called the Murchison Widefield ...

Western Australia has dipped in and out of drought over recent years, and the 2020-21 wheat crop was down by 15 percent; in Eastern Australia, the wheat crop fell by 20 percent in 2019 ...

While Tasmania retained its very wet average with 1,389mm of rain, and Western Australia actually had 10% more rain than usual, other states suffered. The Northern Territory received 7% below ...

In 2018, every state except for Tasmania and Western Australia received ... agriculture consumes around 70% of Australia’s water footprint. However, the 2004 National Water Initiative committed ...

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