Now absorbed by Kalgoorlie, the gold mining settlement of Boulder was a separate town until 1989. The prominent town hall and historic architecture on Burt Street speak to Boulder’s historic …
Rewind to the second half of the 19th century, and the city of Maryborough was Queensland’s main port, handling anything from timber to wool, meat, alcohol, tobacco and even opium. …
On the Murray River, the inland Port of Echuca is one of Australia’s great heritage icons, capturing the spirit of the country’s 19th-century pioneers like few other places. The old …
South Australia’s second most populous city is built right on top of a volcanic crater. Breathtaking geomorphology is all part of the cityscape, at volcanic rims, crater lakes, cave systems …
Not many cities have made a transformation as dramatic as Burnie on the north-west coast of Tasmania. For all of the 20th century this was a gritty industrial hub, ruled …
The town of Wynyard is enclosed by verdant farmland and spellbinding coastline on Tasmania‘s North West Coast. The first thing to mention the awesome geology. Impossible to ignore to the …
The seaside town of Victor Harbor is close to where two world-changing explorers, Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin, bumped into each other in 1802. The UK and France were at …
The first inland port in Australia took shape on the lower reaches of the Murray River in the 1850s. Goolwa’s wharf, still intact today, allowed goods to move along the …
Some of the world’s finest wool comes from this small city up in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales. And to celebrate that fact there’s a giant merino ram …
This tourist-friendly town not far from Newcastle, New South Wales, is set on the south side of Port Stephens, a long natural harbour. Nelson Bay is among a string of …