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Women on top

Mother and daughter team, Cheryl and Nikki Bart complete the ultimate mountaineering quest.
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Honey, you have the brain of a bee

New research finds bees are the brainy bunch of the insect world.
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Discover Australia

In 1839, the British barque Lancier was wrecked on Stragglers Rocks, near Fremantle, WA. During salvage operations, a chest holding 7000 gold coins was lost overboard while being transferred to a rowing boat. They have never been found.

From Our Archives

AG 86 Apr - Jun 2007

Adventurer Andrew McAuley was lost at sea in February, less than 80km from completing the first unsupported kayak paddle across the Tasman Sea. He leaves a profound legacy.

AG 87 Jul - Sep 2007

The day the Bluebird flew

AG 88 Oct - Dec 2007

Fred Smithies led the way for legendary Tasmanian photographers Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis.

Ancestral chart

Our story in AG 90 (April - June), Charting Australia, helped reader Irene O'Malley reconnect with her mother's beloved birthplace.
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Beyond Reasonable Drought

Some of Australia's most notable photographers will feature in a new exhibition at Old Parliament House, Canberra, portraying landscapes in drought.
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Our Latest Issue

Reading the desert

The AG Society’s ninth scientific expedition fused learned expertise and volunteer zeal to reveal knowledge long-buried in the arid environs of the northern Simpson Desert.

Australian Harvest

AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHIC spent 12 months following our national harvest through every season and to all corners of the country, capturing the stories of food producers from backyard vegie growers to broadacre grain farmers. We found a fresh bunch of innovators and optimists making a go of it.

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