TG #58 : Photos from the Unexplored +The Unique Lagoon of Islands
The Forgotten Tasmanian Emus
An Eye for Detail - Architectural Drawings of Notable Buildings
A Forest Burnt - Images of the Southern Forest
Catching the Light - Five Glass Spheres
Alpine Tasmania - An Introduction
The Hunt for the Patagonian Nothofagus
Threads of Memory: Nostalgia Tasmania
Tiny Monsters? An Intro to the Insects of Tasmania
The Finest Details: Etching Tasmanian Plants
A Gateway to Charm - Northwest Tasmania (1955)
At the Lake of Fire - Abseiling into Marum Volcano Crater
Ski Mountaineering in the Southwest
Their Land - An Aerial Wilderness Odyssey
The Illustrated Earth - Ticehurt's Landscape Physiography
How to Draw A Forest
Lune River Tree Fern Fossicking- A Jurassic Discovery in the Far South
The Remarkable Acellular Slime Moulds
The Aurora from Macquarie Island
Underground Australia
The Definitive Guide - How to Find and Photograph Sea Sparkle Bioluminescence
What's Killing the Endangered Forty-spotted Pardalote?
The Eldon Range - Magnet for the Slightly Deranged
An Artist's View of Flinders Island
Neck and Neck – An Island of Isthmuses
Gear for the Overland Track
Exploring the Largest Glacial Lake of the Southwest
Conjuring the Lost Marsupials
Applied Cryptozoology - Using Leeches to Locate the Thylacine
A Watercolour Journey on the East Coast
A Quadcopter View of the Dunalley Bushfires
The Seals of Tenth Island
The Fury of the Sunstorm
Circumnavigating Tassie by Kayak
Frank Hurley: Isle of Many Waters
Timelapse: Tumultuous Tasmania
295 articles
"...opportunities to shed the fetters of the modern world and lose myself in the sublime and scrubby vastness of the wilderness."
by Martin Hawes
"...the credentials for uniqueness were absolutely impeccable." - Dr. Peter Tyler
by Special Arrangement
"Sinking to our knees in sucking mud... " Getting your boots dirty and seeing the landscape for yourself reveals more than any surveyor’s report, geological map, or satellite image ever could.
by Bradley Dare
Discover the links between Tassie and Antarctica, on foot in the Hobart Waterfront
by Special Arrangement
You can always find them, if only you look for them
by Paula Peeters
Rare imagery from the high Antarctic mountain ranges
by Damien Gildea
Climb to the summit of Cradle Mountain in high-resolution video!
by Stoked for Saturdays
Before the rainforest burns.... life goes on...
by Paula Peeters
Can you spot the changes over six decades?
by Special Arrangement
A quick overview of the best places to spot our famous marsupial, placental, and monotreme wildlife
by Jon Hall
The legendary river at the heart of the Southwest Tasmanian World: Heritage Area: rainforests, rubber rafts, rapids
by JD Fox
Skilled cartographers far from home have given new names to ancient landscapes
by Special Arrangement
Stunning images from Rock Monkey Becca Lunnon's adventures in the high dolerite mountains of Tasmania
by Becca Lunnon
"The object of this book is to excite an interest in plants by affording an easy means of studying the structures and affinities of some of our commonest native flowers...."
by Special Arrangement
How can laser scans be used to create homes for wildlife?
by Alex Holland
A brief history of a historical gathering place in Launceston
by Helen Webberley
The most skilled predators: fast, deadly, tiny, beautiful
by John Douglas
"Crystal clear water, towering sea cliffs and playful seals – what more could you ask for?"
by Stoked for Saturdays
Wintertime mountaineering on the steep columns of Cradle Mountain
by Ben Armstrong
Andy Szollosi and Tim Kirkby traverse a remote and largely untracked part of the wild Central Plateau
by Andy Szollosi
Tasmania's legendary mountain bike trails through Tasmania's legendary rainforest. Tree ferns galore.
by Tracks Less Travelled
Gorgeous. Luscious. Fantastic. Indulge your eyes on the landscape in high-resolution.
by Editor
Where has our largest bird gone?
by Tristan Dernham
What are the most beautiful and elaborate of all flowers?
by Sue & Russell Twining
A skilful coloured pencil drawing can bring out vibrancy in the most solid of buildings...
by Horst Tiefholz
Living wood is a hard and durable substance...and in rare circumstances it can last for millions of years...
by Apple Isle Prospector
Millions of charred trees and bright splashes of green...
by Nick Fitzgerald
There's an unexpected variability in the eggs of birds, if you think to look carefully.
by Kiara L'Herpiniere
Way back in the 20th century, before emails and smartphones, messages travelled around the world powered by tiny little paintings...
by Editor
The first Europeans in Tasmania brought the magic of their homelands into their homes...
by Tasmanian Magic Project
Did you know Tasmania has the world's tallest and largest flowering plants?
by Editor
What lives at the land's end, ansd what happens?
by Vishnu Prahalad
If you can't look in all directions at once, you still have options...
by Alistair Luckman
Images from the Land of the Penguins
by Cara McGary
An introduction to the island - up over the central mountains, down to the West Coats, and to the northwest coast - all in less than 30 minutes!
by Special Arrangement
The last and largest of the white peppermints
by David Tng
Sixty years ago, this island was mapped, measured, and photographed using skills unfamiliar to us in the electronic era
by Special Arrangement
Who is not astounded by the massive pelican?
by Sarah Lloyd
This is probably the strangest and most beautiful thing you've never seen. Five minutes of great fun!
by Special Arrangement
We may have visited more times than we can count, but there is always something remarkable to study on the Wellington Range.
by Roy Vieth
A classroom in the treetops!
by Y.D. Bar-Ness
Tasmania's mountain environments at a glance
by Editor
Lost at sea, and found again
by Special Arrangement
A mineral treasure awaits on the north coast
by Apple Isle Prospector
A wandering monarch butterfly links naturalists in the Apple Isle with the Big Apple
by Don Knowler
There's a Southern Beech Tree that lives even farther south...
by Cara McGary
The strangest forest you will ever experience.
by Mick Lawrence
It's steep. It's wild. It's humbling.
by Dan Broun
Direct habitat creation: Sometimes our feathered friends need a helping hand
by Y.D. Bar-Ness
Birds of sea and air
by Peter Vaughan
The story of Bonemill Bay.
by John and Maria Grist
"What better way to remember a time and place and all the memories held dear?"
by Nostalgia Tasmania
The marvelous and diverse creatures hiding in the suburbs of Tasmania
by Insects of Tasmania
Tasmanian honeybees in tip-top shape are traveling overseas
by Mountain Creek Media
As the emus left, the blackberries arrived...
by Bert Spinks
Three Trampers, Ten Arduous Days, Seven Wild Summits
by Zane Robnik
Where art and science meet: Taking a very close look at our native flora...
by Deborah Wace
Help identify wildlife captured by remote camera in Tasmanian conservation lands
by Special Arrangement
Practical work in the field: conserving wombat populations
by Special Arrangement
Dirty snowballs from the far reaches of the solar system!
by Public Domain Review
Lavishly illustrated and wildly popular, this book introduced readers of the Empire to New Zealand, mainland Australia, and Tasmania
by Special Arrangement
The most versatile and renewable of all building materials
by Christine Klimek
1955 tourism assertions: "You will begin to feel that all of your dreams of peace and contentment are at last coming true"
by Special Arrangement
One of the most daunting peaks in Tasmania
by Cam Walker
"It looks like all of my wildest dreams in one moment"
by Special Arrangement
The highest mountain in the Southwest, clad in the heaviest snowfall for decades...
by Wild Oates Productions
Short days and long nights can be bring familiarity and meaning.
by Bert Spinks
"Imagination is our window into the future."
by Special Arrangement
35,000 years ago, Earth was consumed by an Ice Age...
by Simon Bischoff
A photo-documentary following the January bushfires in the northwest of the island.
by Nicole Anderson
Pedestrianism at its most challenging - the early days of ultra-marathons
by John and Maria Grist
A nature preserve in a critical location helps endangered woodlands birds survive
by Andrew Hingston
We need your help: we're looking for giant trees around Tasmania
by Editor
Where can you find sand, fans, forest, fjord, flatirons, badlands, and bastions in the same place?
by Special Arrangement
"In pictures as well as words"
by Paula Peeters
It's been a wonderful year.
by Editor
A visualization of global weather conditions on our favourite planet - earth - courtesy of nullschool
by Special Arrangement
How citizen science can help us understand seasonal changes in Tasmania’s flora and fauna
by Nick Fitzgerald
The tale of a master sailor and whaler: "Perhaps no person was more generally known by name at least, both in and out of the colony"
by Bert Spinks
As far south as you can go...
by Geraldina Dijkstra
"The mountains don their winter cloak of white, transforming a wild landscape into something that’s even wilder and somehow, even more beautiful."
by Andy Szollosi
A tale of ancient trees turned to stone
by Christine Klimek
Burrowing Crayfish? Mysterious Mounds?
by Nicole Gill
" He decided that his ‘limited leisure’ time could not be filled with reading, writing or socialising, he sought to occupy himself with something more exciting: volcanology"
by Public Domain Review
I guess I’m naturally attracted to pretty rocks and minerals…. What could be more fun than paddling knee high in a cold stream during Tasmanian winter, vigorously looking through sand for gemstones?
by Stephanie Sykora
Alpine explorations: The Minotaur, The Pool of Memories, The Labyrinth, Mount Gould
by Cam Walker
"It is a land washed by the seas on every side...Strange tigers and prehistoric animals made the island their home."
by Special Arrangement
"..A petrifying stream where trunks of trees become stone"
by Special Arrangement
Neither slimy nor mouldy, the social amoeba are some of the most curious of all life forms.
by Sarah Lloyd
There are wild places that nobody ever sees....except a few...
by Janine McKinnon
Is it an ice plant, or a moss?
by David Tng
One hundred years of duck bills
by Tina Schroeder
The Southern Lights from an island in the Southern Ocean
by Nick Fitzgerald
A compilation of historical photographs from the subterranean world, compiled courtesy the National Library of Australia
by Special Arrangement
A short film documenting crossing of the Bass Strait to arrive at King Island
by Norm and Dawn
The richness, the humour, and the emotion of times past...
by Ben Ross
Remembering the past and imagining the future of the Channel
by Sheltered Passage
Ten tips to improve your photography...when you're back from your field trip.
by Roy Vieth
Two hundred years ago, the universe within was being explored, charted, and marvelled at...
by Special Arrangement
The definitive guide for photographing the unpredictable and rare bioluminescence at the seashore
by Multiple Contributors
Four tips to steady your camera for better photos, as easy as: Bracing; Pressing against objects; Burst mode; and Creativity at finding trypods.
by Michael Fuller
At Warra Long Term Research Site- measuring Tassie’s World Heritage forests
by Mark Grant
Singly, each individual emits a tiny speck of light, but en masse, they can light up a beach with an eerie other-worldly glow
by Lisa-ann Gershwin
"Amidst the monotony of trench life – the flies, heat, dust, stench and thirst of the summer stalemate – they found people and events worth photographing"
by Public Domain Review
What's an LBB?
by Nicole Gill
Usually rocks and sea landscapes have been eroded to odd and mismatched shapes. What’s most striking about these bastions is how they protrude from the sea in almost perfect geometric shapes.
by Stephanie Sykora
"And although Ebenezer was producing an intoxicant that (it could be said) created negative social effects throughout his native island, he was a godly man..."
by Bert Spinks
Blood-sucking larvae? No more old trees? Fights with other species? Drought?
by Max Edworthy
Blood-red waters, a giant flora god, unshakeable faith, and unswerving scepticism. A forest, a dream, a mystery...
by Tristan Stuart
Art as an ambassador for science... the piece is often so seamless that the observer doesn’t even realize that he or she is looking at a skillful reconstruction.
by Zach Fitzner
Notes from a mountaineer - Steep and often wind blasted and icy slopes, cliffs, occasional rock fall, slow travel across boulder fields.
by Cam Walker
Observation, images, and photospheres from the branches of the world's tallest flowering plant
by Y.D. Bar-Ness
imagine what fantastical colours and shapes you could see from in orbit...
by Into The Wild Films
"When we think of wrecks, we think of shipwrecks, and the devastating power of the sea..."
by Rebecca Wood
by Wild Oates Productions
"... It now ranks as one of the biggest and best maritime celebrations in the world...."
by Wooden Boat Festival
Can you identify the five "-stans" of Central Asia?
by Editor
A unique cave system in New South Wales is under threat of flooding by a proposed dam....Save Cliefden Caves needs your help!
by Special Arrangement
"A magnet for the slightly deranged: from the salted-meat chomping, tweed-wearing pioneers of old to the obsessive peak baggers and scrub warriors of today. ..we just managed to scrape together the requisite amount of madness and masochistic tendency to justify a trip."
by Ben Armstrong
"Each beach shares its fairytale in variations of aqua-blue water, white sand, chiselled arches and crimson rocks."
by Arwen Dyer
A linear introduction to 43,000 years of humanity
by Special Arrangement
All landscapes change - but some change faster than others..
by Special Arrangement
"Upon which he took to the bush, and gathered round him the most troublesome of all the gangs then abroad..."
by Special Arrangement
Not all mountains deign to be climbed
by Christopher Coxson
Have a look inside one of the massive cruise liners visiting Tasmanian waters
by Special Arrangement
Saib Sultan and Zimran Youram were the first Muslims in Tasmania. One survived a shipwreck, the other was a convict...
by Bert Spinks
The mystery explained- why does Tassie have so many impossibly narrow isthmuses?
by David Hurburgh
Did you know Tasmania has friends from all over the world?
by Editor
by Special Arrangement
The Huon Valley is the apple orchard heartland of the The Apple Isle
by Beth Hall
"The day turns dark as the heavy cloud sets in. Only moments later the darkness turns a heavenly white. The mountain sings a loud song of sharp winds, and heavy snow.”
by Tristan Stuart
What should you bring on a trek through Tasmania's highest mountains?
by Warwick Sprawson
How did the island's largest dune system form?
by Felipe Ramirez
What do you think of them apples?
by Beth Hall
How is clambering on the rocks like conducting a research project?
by Paul Monigatti
Maria Island is a paradise for photographers....
by Roy Vieth
Southwestern dolerite at its sunniest and brightest
by Special Arrangement
Wouldn't it be great if anyone who loves the ocean could contribute?
by Special Arrangement
Life itself branches and branches and branches...
by Editor
From the Captain- Join the quest to see the true effects of ocean warming. Cheerio!
by Special Arrangement
A sculptured gallery of tiny sandstone caves provides nesting habitat for pardalote birds
by Editor
Along the climbing trail to the summit of Murchison
by Editor
Understanding the Tree Of Life analogy
by Special Arrangement
"...But you can always make it more difficult by carrying an inflatable boat on a 30ºC day!"
by Nick Fitzgerald
In a small little valley in the south of Tasmania, a war rages, every year.
by Andy Wilson
If fish were citizen scientists....
by Special Arrangement
Hidden mountains, strong corners
by Editor
Overheard: We were just on, our very first date, when a crab came along and thought I was bait!
by Special Arrangement
# 1 - Slow down...# 2 - Plan ahead but be flexible...
by Ben Wilkinson
Discover the history behind some of the island's most spectacular points
by J. Moore-Robinson
Convict justice and reformation went hand in hand with Christian values...
by Penitentiary Chapel
It's almost as if it was on the Great Barrier Reef...(but it's not)
by Special Arrangement
In the absence of sunlight, your camera is your canvas for painting with light...
by Jasper Da Seymour
What does nine days of satellite imagery, 312 orbits of the Earth, and 2.5 terabytes of data look like?
by NASA
Chasing the forest giants of the Southern Hemisphere
by Astrid Tiefholz-Devine
You can learn to identify, predict, and conjure rainbows. Here's how....
by Editor
How do you imagine the extinct marsupials of Australia would have looked?
by Nobu Tamura
Travel to some of the most iconic places on the island with Milosh K and his HD camera
by Milosh K
What’s red, yellow, orange, and green, is found up high, and is about to fall?
by Arwen Dyer
Discover the Vale of Belvoir- a unique geology and biodiversity hotspot in the northern highlands of Tasmania
by Dennis Suitters
"It was said that Macquarie thought her the safest ship they had ever sailed on..."
by Irene Schaffer
What would it be like to await trial In one of Australia's most important convict heritage sites?
by Penitentiary Chapel
Five easy questions....but do you know the answers?
by Special Arrangement
Mid-August, six AM , it's minus one degrees Centigrade and my fingers are not working.
by Sam Wilkinson
Where can you go when the world turns against you? Critchley Parker had an idea- the farthest corner of the farthest island..
by Helen Webberley
What's it feel like to clamber on some of the finest cliffs in Australia? Join the adventure with a helmet-camera and get a sense of the vertigo, patience, and challenge in rock climbing...
by Paul Monigatti
There's a stunning view to be had towards the rising sun from the Pacific Coast of Tasmania
by Angus Munro
Thought for food: How to protect your food from animal raiders?
by Warwick Sprawson
Thinking outside the box: locating a legend with a leech....
by Michael Weinzierl
The fiercest marsupial animal to ever live was the Thylacoleo- an animal more terrifying than any mammal alive today
by Editor
There's world class low-light photography happening here. Came and capture some photons in a technical photoshoot deep underground...
by Francois Fourie
See Tasmania from an entirely new angle! Let the FPV Microcopter racing begin!
by Rian Taylor
A Descriptive Air Composed for Three Fiddles.
by Special Arrangement
A field guide to one of the island's most common marsupials
by Rootourism
The strangest of all mammals, the Platypus is one of our most treasured animals
by Editor
On the high peaks and ridges of the Tasmanian mountains
by Angus Munro
The space between the planets is not so quiet as we might imagine....
by NASA
Tasmanian crocodiles are exceptionally dangerous, but here's how you keep them under control
by Rusty Bitts
The most successful plants of the modern day are often unnoticed and underappreciated....
by David Tng
How you can help document the effects of global climate change on Australia's marine life
by JD Fox
Tramp into the farthest corners of the southwest to the summit of Victoria Cross
by Matt Brain
Gustav Weindorfer came to Australia looking for adventure, but found much more – a Tasmanian and her island home
by Warwick Sprawson
As part of the Australia- India Youth Dialogue, Bangalore- based wildlife photographer/filmmaker Amoghavarsha traveled 7000 km across Australia
by Amoghavarsha
The Antarctic vessel Aurora Australis was involved in a unexpected rescue in the ice-bound southern seas...
by Fred Olivier
A handful of paintings shows the East Coast in a vibrant splash of watercolours
by Clementine Hauguenois
How did an Irish Revolutionary escape Van Dieman's Land to become the Governor of Montana?
by Reg Watson
With an eye for detail, Shutterbug Walkabouts take us for a visual tour of the seaside
by Roy Vieth
The first Tasmanian to BASE parachute jump off one of our most famous mountains recalls the steps leading to the edge
by Chris Sharples
A poetic appreciation, to be recited around a campfire near the beach under the stars. Say it out loud.
by Shane Walker
Explore the Memory Palace: Techniques and aids for memory
by JD Fox
Piguenit, an explorer and painter, starred in two important elements: his magic silvery light and his glassy bodies of water
by Helen Webberley
It's been a year since last summer's bushfires. Let's take a moment to remember and be aware during this upcoming summer.
by Rian Taylor
Tasmania at its finest. Sit back, chill out for a few minutes and enjoy the journey
by Dean Preston
Fifty years back, a young surveyor lost in the bush finds a way to show up two experienced West Coast bushmen
by Rusty Bitts
Join a desert photographer on an excursion to the snowcapped springtime mountain
by Steven Pearce
"Awake and ecstatic, finding solace under silent night skies..."
by Arwen Dyer
What's so special about Port Arthur?
by PAHSMA
How do you share half a terabyte of images from a short and sharp driving tour?
by Debashis Talukdar
Strap yourself in for a breathtaking ride through Australia's fly fishing wonderland - Tasmania
by Gin-Clear Media
Tafoni are beautifully rounded cavities found in a variety of rocks on Earth
by Jon Boxerman
Teleportal: Put on your gumboots and wade into the Esperance River in Southernmost Tasmania
by Editor
What makes a wilderness dangerous?
by Chris Sharples
What if Hobart's long-forgotten waterway was brought back into social consciousness?
by Tiffani Navratil
Dive underwater into the kelp forests with the the curious and playful seals of a Bass Strait island
by Mark Polinski
A most wonderful sight- the looping arcs and titanic fury of a solar storm. Prepare to be amazed.
by NASA
An exquisite photo gallery bring the architectural history of colonial Tasmania to light
by Roy Vieth
John and Maria Grist recount the history of the hut-building efforts of yesteryear
by John and Maria Grist
What's an inflatable kayak doing on the summit of one of Tassie's most challenging mountains?
by Wild Oates Productions
View the film trailer of a feature documentary showing the adventure, peril, teamwork and serenity of a mountaineering group’s attempt to summit the world’s most challenging peak.
by Dave Ohlson
Be a "rootourist" by spotting and appreciating Australia's unique macropod wildlife
by Rootourism
Our island has an opportunity to show the world how special it is geologically....
by Peter S. Manchester
Our enthusiasm mounted early as we made plans to climb one of Tasmania’s unique and beautiful rock towers protruding from the sea. ..
by James Cruikshank
Take a virtual visit to the summit of the southern Tasmanian Mountain
by Editor
A team of three paddlers take up the challenge to be the first women to complete the 900-mile journey
by Justine Curgenven
Have a listen to a tune that Tasmanians played a hundred years ago...
by Steve and Marjorie Gadd
The most magical creatures imaginable: A research update from the University of Queensland
by David Merritt
An paragon of twentieth-century explorers, the famed Aussie photographer of polar regions returned home to produce one of the earliest tourism films of Tassie
by Frank Hurley
Join Matt Brain on a truly epic walk into a remote corner of the Southwest. Part 2 of 2.
by Matt Brain
Take a closer look at the glass formed by the impact of a meteor into Western Tasmania's Darwin Crater almost a million years ago
by Spikey Riddoch
"Few experiences compare to an acquaintance with trees of such haunting magnificence and presence... "
by David Tng
Learn about recent gatherings of Uni students addressing urgent environmental concerns
by Alice McGushin
A photo essay explores new perspectives of a short trail in the Tarkine
by Mica Ivealis
If a picture is worth a 1000 words, what will 65 000 pictures tell you?
by Francois Fourie
Join Matt Brain on a truly epic walk into a remote corner of the Southwest. Part 1 of 2.
by Matt Brain
How the generosity of Judah Solomon facilitated the building of the oldest remaining synagogue in Australia
by Rotem Erlich
Welcome To The Mountain. Explore Mount Wellington by car using this geographic guide
by Mark Hanna
The dolerite cliffs of the Tasman National Park are some of the tallest in the world
by Michael Fuller
What's YOUR happiest memory?
by Declan Brown
Your stories, photos, enthusiasm, and ideas are kindly requested.
by Editor
The Theatre Royal is the oldest continuously running theatre in the country
by Helen Webberley
Travel through the mountains and learn about this southernmost island
by Y.D. Bar-Ness
There is only one tree left in Tasmania that loses its leaves in the winter
by David Tng
In this entrancing video, we get a glimpse of aquatic biodiversity in all of its colour and motion.
by Ocean Planet Tasmania
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by Editor
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by Supporters of TG
Share your experience, enthusiasm, and perspective
by Editor