Australia - Northern Territory, Darwin, Ghan and Uluru

Australia. Uluru Waterfalls

Kings Canyon - Australia

Kings Canyon, Northern Territory

Conversations quickly turn to the surrounding countryside, and while it’s easy to imagine the Australian Outback as a possibly boring, scrubby, same-ish environment, its one that quickly proves that the more you look, the more you see...

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On my long, incredibly long, road trip from the east coast of Australia to the Alice Springs/Uluru, I saw a sign for the Devil’s Marbles, which are a few hundred miles north of Alice Springs. Really interesting area. I wish I’d had more time to hang out there — camp overnight — and take some [...]

Major part of the landmarks of Australia are natural monuments but of world importance are also some archaeological monuments, e.g. cliff paintings.

The Roulettes fly in wedge formation over Ayers Rock, Australia (by Department of Defence).

Australia

Albert Namatjira (1902-59) became interested in painting at the Hermannsburg Mission in the 1930s. After learning watercolour technique, he was persuaded to exhibit his work in Melbourne in 1938. The exhibition sold out in two days. During the 1940s his work became fashionable throughout Australia and he was the subject of a biography and a film. In 1954 he met the Queen in Canberra, and he was awarded citizenship status in 1957. One of the consequences of citizenship was that Namatjira was…

Alice Springs, Australia.

Uluru / Ayers Rock