Karijini National Park, also known by the name of Hamersley Range, is famous for its spectacular mountains, gorges, streams and highlands. Karijini is the second largest national park in Western Australia and one of the most spectacular Australian parks. Located in Pilbara, north of the Tropic of Capricorn, it is located about 1,435 kilometers north […]
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Broome, being about 18 ° south of the equator, has a semi-arid tropical climate characterized by two seasons based on rainfall. The town has in fact a long dry and arid season that begins in April and ends in November, and a shorter rainy season that runs from December to March. The rainiest months are […]
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Eighty Mile Beach: looking for shells
Eighty Mile Beach is a long stretch of sand that spans much of the coast between Cape Missiessy and Cape Keraudren in Western Australia. Between the towns of Port Hedland and Broome. This beach represents the meeting point between the Great Sandy Desert and the Indian Ocean. Here, in fact, the desert reaches the waters […]
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Broome: wonderful beaches and pearls
Broome is located along the north-western coast of Australia, south of Dampier Land and west of the wild Kimberley, of which Broome is the southern gateway. Founded around 1880 as a pearl port. It became a center of attraction for many immigrants who came here to work in the flourishing pearl industry. The city territory […]
The Olgas Mountains (Mount Olgas) also called with the Aboriginal name of Kata Tjuta, is a group of red rocks carved by the elements that are located a few tens of kilometers from Ayers Rock (Uluru). These rocks suddenly rise from the monotonous lowlands of central Australia. Composed of sedimentary rocks these mountains rise up […]
Kings Canyon is a spectacular canyon located in Watarrka National Park in central Australia. The canyon is located 440 km south-west of Alice Springs about 300 km north-east of Ayers Rock (Uluru). Kings Canyon is a spectacular area of the Australian desert formed by red cliffs up to 100 meters high. The plateau above the […]
In the heart of what is called the Red Center of Australia lies what is, together with the kangaroos, the symbol of the country. The huge rocky monolith of Ayers Rock, which the Aborigines call in their language Uluru. Uluru is one of Australia’s most visited places, a unique place in the world. Here you […]
Alice Springs has a very hot and dry desert climate, summers are very hot, while winters are quite cold, there are also significant differences in temperature between day and night. The climate is arid, with little or no rainfall. The city is located more than 500 meters above sea level. The temperatures usually range from an […]
Alice Springs is a town in the Australian Northern Territories located in the center of the Australian continent. The city is located along the Todd River, which is often dry, close to the MacDonnell Range mountains, 1,500 kilometers north of Adelaide, and 1,500 kilometers south of Darwin. In 1862 the explorer John McDouall Stuart, passed […]
The Nambung National Park is located about 200 km north of Perth, near the town of Cervantes, off the coast of the Indian Ocean. The park was created to protect the famous Pinnacles Desert, an area of coastal sand dunes located in a desert environment where there are huge limestone pillars that create fascinating contrasts […]
Perth has a mild Mediterranean climate that can be divided into canonical four seasons, the summers, between December and March, are hot and dry, the winters, between June and September, are mild and rainy, spring and autumn are mild and relatively wet but with several days of good weather. Rainfall is concentrated in the months […]
Perth, the capital of Western Australia, was founded in 1829 along the banks of the Swan River near the mouth of the river in the Indian Ocean. The place was initially a penal colony and a military post. Later the city developed both thanks to the construction of the railway that connected it to Adelaide […]
Western Australia has many types of climate, in the south-west, the climate is temperate, with winter rainfall (June-August) and four distinct seasons, to the north the climate is tropical with a wet season and a dry season (April to November) while in the rest of the land is arid or semi-arid. Away from the coast […]
Western Australia is the largest state in Australia. This state has an area of 2,645,615 sq km and a population of 2,600,000 (2019) inhabitants. Most of Western Australia’s inhabitants live in the capital Perth. A city located in the southwestern corner of the state that has over two million inhabitants. The state borders the Northern […]
The Northern Territory has two distinct types of climate, in the northern part of the state, the one that faces the Indian Ocean, the climate is tropical. While in the southern arid regions the climate is desert-like. In the tropical climate area that extends along the Gulf of Carpentaria and in the Arnhem Land, also […]