When Tasmania broke away from New South Wales politically in the 19th century it was decided all islands south of Wilsons ...

The phantom Manhattan-size island in the Coral Sea was shown as Sandy Island on Google Earth, sized about 15 miles by three miles on Google Maps, and halfway between Australia and the French New ...

Ice coverage is shrinking on Heard Island — a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a haven of biodiversity. Over the course of more ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has suffered the largest decline in coral cover in two of its three regions over the last year, research released on Wednesday showed, following a mass bleaching of its ...

Australia’s islands offer pearly dunes, rainforest, endless beaches and turquoise waters - moisseyev K’gari is the largest sand island in the world - Matthew Starling ...

Scientists have made a worrying discovery on a remote Australian island located 4,100 kilometres southwest of Perth. In just ...

Glaciers on the remote Australian territory of Heard Island have lost almost a quarter of their size over the past seven ...