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Mountain Arkaroola
"Ancient granite bucks beneath tyres by day; guided telescopes take over after dark."
Wilderness Arnhem Land
"Escarpment rock-art country, floodplains and empty tropical coast make up a vast living Aboriginal homeland."
City Barossa Valley
"Stone cellar doors, century-old shiraz vines, and the weight of six generations in every glass."
Water Bay of Fires
"Orange lichen burns across granite beside clear, cold water on Tasmania's north-east coast."
Wilderness Birdsville
"One pub, one racetrack and Big Red rising beside the Simpson Desert."
Mountain Blue Mountains
"Eucalyptus haze turns a labyrinth of canyons and waterfalls into a blue hallucination."
Water Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill Gorge)
"Spring-fed turquoise water cuts through red Gulf sandstone on Waanyi Country."
City Broken Hill
"Twelve sandstone sculptures on a hilltop where the outback stretches to a vanishing point."
Water Broome
"130-million-year-old dinosaur footprints revealed at low tide on a beach where camels walk at sunset."
Water Byron Bay
"Surfers paddle into dawn beneath a lighthouse at mainland Australia's easternmost point."
Wilderness Cape Tribulation
"Rainforest runs out of land where mangroves, beach and reef coast collide."
Mountain Carnarvon Gorge
"Ochre stencils crowd sandstone walls deep beyond a gorge of palms and creek crossings."
Wilderness Coober Pedy
"A town built underground to escape the heat; even the church has no sky."
Mountain Cradle Mountain
"A jagged dolerite peak mirrors in Dove Lake beside the multi-day Overland Track."
Wilderness Daintree Rainforest
"Warm rain drums on fan palms where ancient plant lineages still crowd the canopy."
Water Dampier Peninsula
"Red pindan falls into turquoise tide where Bardi Jawi guides read sea country."
Water Eden
"An orca skeleton anchors a whaling story so strange its details remain contested."
Wilderness El Questro
"Warm springs hide beneath palms while red gorges split a working Kimberley cattle station."
Water Esperance
"Kangaroos sometimes doze on sand beneath a Southern Ocean blue that looks electrically lit."
Wilderness Eungella National Park
"Wait in dawn mist and Broken River may answer with a platypus."
Water Freycinet
"Wineglass Bay; a crescent of white sand framed by pink granite peaks and Tasman blue."
Water Great Barrier Reef
"Turtles thread through a coral world stretching 2,300 kilometres along Queensland."
Water Great Ocean Road
"Limestone apostles crumble into furious surf while the road clings to cliffs above."
Water Heron Island
"In season, turtles haul ashore after dark beside a coral cay and reef laboratory."
Water Hervey Bay
"Humpback mothers rest with calves inside the sheltered bend of their winter migration."
Wilderness Hinchinbrook Island
"Tidal creeks, rainforest and granite ridges turn one island trail into a self-sufficient expedition."
Water Horizontal Falls
"Kimberley tides squeeze sideways through twin gaps in the red McLarty Range."
Wilderness Huon Valley
"Apples, cider and wooden boats follow a river until wet forest closes around the road."
Wilderness Innamincka
"An outback hospital built for impossible distances stands beside Cooper Creek and river red gums."
Water Jervis Bay
"Pale sand squeaks underfoot where clear water meets eucalyptus shade."
Water K'gari (Fraser Island)
"Freshwater lakes glow blue above the sea on the world's largest sand island."
Wilderness Kakadu National Park
"Layered rock art looks across floodplains remade six times a year."
Wilderness Kangaroo Island
"Sea lions lounge on beaches, koalas sleep in roadside trees, and the air tastes of eucalyptus."
Mountain Karijini National Park
"Red-and-black iron bands plunge towards cold pools inside narrow Pilbara chasms."
Wilderness Karlu Karlu (Devil's Marbles)
"Granite boulders balance, split and stack across a living cultural landscape."
Mountain Kata Tjuta (The Olgas)
"Thirty-six domes swallow the horizon; the Valley of the Winds leads between them."
Mountain Kings Canyon (Watarrka)
"Sheer 100-metre walls hide the Garden of Eden; palms and permanent water in the desert."
Water Lady Elliot Island
"Manta rays turn beneath snorkellers where a coral cay meets the reef's southern edge."
Water Lake Hillier
"Pink water flashes between dark island scrub and the blue Southern Ocean."
Wilderness Lake Tyrrell
"Still water can turn this Mallee salt lake into a second night sky."
Mountain Lamington National Park
"Antarctic beech trunks rise through cloud forest where waterfalls vanish into green ravines."
Wilderness Limmen National Park
"Sandstone towers form empty lanes above rivers and hundreds of kilometres of rough Gulf road."
Wilderness Litchfield National Park
"Termite mounds stand edge-on to the sun beside waterfalls that decide when swimming is safe."
Water Lizard Island
"Granite coves open onto giant clams and coral at the reef's northern frontier."
Wilderness Maria Island
"Wombats graze between convict buildings on a car-free island edged by painted cliffs."
Water Mitchell Falls
"In season, four tiers of water thunder through sandstone on remote Wunambal Gaambera Country."
City MONA
"Art about sex, death and everything awkward descends into darkness beneath a river peninsula."
Water Moreton Island
"Coral and schooling fish gather around seventeen wrecks beside a vast sand island."
Mountain Mount Augustus
"Burringurrah rises alone from mulga, its folded rock changing colour through the day."
City Mount Gambier
"Every late November the crater lake turns from winter grey to vivid cobalt."
Water Ningaloo Reef
"Coral begins close to shore; whale sharks require a licensed boat into deeper blue."
Mountain Nitmiluk (Katherine Gorge)
"Sandstone gorges unfold along the Katherine River through cruises, portages and high walks."
Wilderness Nullarbor Plain
"A treeless plain ending in sheer cliffs that drop into the Southern Ocean to the horizon."
Wilderness Painted Desert
"Crimson, cream and gold hills erupt from flat outback beside a remote public route."
Water Phillip Island
"Little penguins rise from black water and file home across Summerland Beach after dusk."
City Port Arthur
"Honey-coloured ruins and harbour gardens disguise the machinery of Britain's convict punishment."
Water Port Lincoln
"A steel cage drops into white-shark habitat; cold-water oysters wait back on shore."
Mountain Purnululu (Bungle Bungles)
"Living black crust stripes orange sandstone domes across a Kimberley range."
City Queenstown
"A century of smelting skinned Queenstown's hills; rainforest now creeps back at the edges."
Water Rottnest Island
"Cycle between clear bays and quokka habitat on Wadjemup, where holiday and prison histories meet."
Water Shark Bay
"Living microbial reefs face a beach built from shells across dugong seagrass country."
City Silverton
"Mad Max roads vanish into Mundi Mundi plain beyond corrugated-iron galleries and a former silver town."
Water South West Rocks
"Grey nurse sharks circle through underwater caves beneath a convict-built granite gaol on the headland."
Wilderness Springbrook
"A waterfall crashes through a cave ceiling into a grotto glowing with thousands of bioluminescent worms."
Water Strahan
"Tannin-dark water mirrors rainforest before the Gordon River cruise reaches convict ruins."
City Sydney
"Ferries carve blue water between surf beaches and opera sails as cockatoos screech overhead."
Wilderness Tarkine
"Moss swallows fallen trunks where rainforest, wild rivers and exposed coast become takayna."
Wilderness The Pinnacles
"Thousands of limestone pillars cast long shadows across Nambung National Park's yellow sand."
Wilderness Uluru
"Desert light turns 550-million-year-old arkose from ochre to crimson across Uluṟu's weathered face."
Wilderness Undara Lava Tubes
"Step through a collapsed roof into tubes hollowed by a vanished river of fire."
City Walhalla
"A railway snakes through fern valley to a gold town squeezed onto one narrow street."
Mountain Walls of Jerusalem
"A steep climb opens onto glacial tarns and pencil-pine groves in Tasmania's high country."
Wilderness Wave Rock
"A 15-metre granite wave frozen mid-break, striped with mineral stains in the middle of wheat country."
Mountain West MacDonnell Ranges
"Cold water hides beneath ochre gorge walls along Tjoritja's long desert spine."
Water Whitsunday Islands
"Hill Inlet's pale sandbars rearrange themselves through clear water with every tide."
Mountain Wilpena Pound
"Quartzite ridges fold around Ikara's immense interior valley in the Flinders Ranges."
Water Wilsons Promontory
"After dark, wombats take over the campground where mainland Australia runs out in granite."
City Winton
"Thousands of dinosaur footprints preserve a Cretaceous scene whose cause scientists still debate."
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Little-known places, unlike anywhere else, that leave you awestruck and full of stories.
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Before the pyramids, someone was teaching volcanic stone to catch fish.
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Most days, salt. Some years, an inland sea.
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Fifty-one figures wait on salt. None will turn to greet you.
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Here, the search for colour leads beneath the bedroom floor.
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The water is gone. The human story remains in the sand.
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Something arrived from the sky. The desert kept the mark.
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