Year-in-Review 2015: Readers’ Choice, Editor’s Picks, Annual Index

2015 has been an exciting year for readers of Tasmanian Geographic. We’ve journeyed into the treetops, orbited the planet, traversed the high mountains, visited New Zealand, hunted for sapphires, discovered Jurassic tree ferns, dived into a subterranean cave, marvelled at the aurora and the sea sparkle both, and much more.

As a review here are three ways for you to revisit what we’ve published in the last calendar year and get ready for 2016. We’ll start with the Readers’ Choice Awards, which are calculated by abacus and fingercounting using digital readership figures. These five articles were the ones which you. dear friends, found the most engaging, and, notwithstanding the non-scientific nature of the statistics, it’s very likely that you’ll enjoy rereading them.

Next, five Picks from the Editor’s Desk. These are articles worthy of a special mention, and were chosen without any reference to quantitative measurements.  Do check them out, and enjoy. And, finally, the complete index – at a glance you can study all of the things we’ve published this year, and choose your own favourite.

All the best! Happy New Year!

Reader’s Choice Awards 2015 (in no particular order):

• Ice Climbing Tasmania – by Wild Oates Productions
• Climbing the World’s Tallest Flowering Tree – by Y.D. Bar-Ness
• What’s Killing the Endangered Forty-spotted Pardalote? – by Amanda Edworthy
• The Definitive Guide – How to Find and Photograph Sea Sparkle Bioluminescence – by Multiple Contributors
• A Timeline of Tasmanian Aboriginal History – by Special Arrangement

Editor’s Picks (in no particular order):

• The Stories They Tell: An Introduction to Oral History – by Ben Ross
• Lune River Tree Fern Fossicking- A Jurassic Discovery in the Far South – by Christine Klimek
• How to Find Sapphires… sort of – by Stephanie Sykora
• The Highline Traverse – Icy Mountaineering in the High Peaks – by Andy Szollosi
• The Remarkable Acellular Slime Moulds – by Sarah Lloyd

Annual Index 2015: Tasmanian Geographic:

• TG #39 – by Editor
  • Earth – A Nullschool Visualisation – by Special Arrangement
  • Citizen Science: Watching the Seasons Change – by Nick Fitzgerald
  • James Kelly – The Father and Founder of Whaling – by Bert Spinks
  • Flying Into The South Coast Track – by Geraldina Dijkstra
• TG #38 – by Editor
  • The Highline Traverse – Icy Mountaineering in the High Peaks – by Andy Szollosi
  • Lune River Tree Fern Fossicking- A Jurassic Discovery in the Far South – by Christine Klimek
  • B is for Buttongrass – by Nicole Gill
  • The Volcano Photography of Tempest Anderson – by Public Domain Review
• TG #37 – by Editor
  • How to Find Sapphires… sort of – by Stephanie Sykora
  • Mountain Journal – The Gould Circuit – by Cam Walker
  • Five Decades Ago: A Tasmanian Story – by Special Arrangement
  • A Closer Look at Arrowsmith’s 1834 Map – by Special Arrangement
• TG #36 – by Editor
  • The Remarkable Acellular Slime Moulds – by Sarah Lloyd
  • The Eastern Islands: Over on the Kiwi Coast – by Arwen Dyer
  • For Your Eyes Only – Cave Diving in Central Tasmania – by Janine McKinnon
  • Almost a Flowering Plant: the Story of Gigaspermum repens – by David Tng
• TG #35 – by Editor
  • Mapping the Platypus Century – by Tina Schroeder
  • The Aurora from Macquarie Island – by Nick Fitzgerald
  • Underground Australia – by Special Arrangement
  • Tassie Bound – Across Bass Strait – by Norm and Dawn
• TG #34 – by Editor
  • The Stories They Tell: An Introduction to Oral History – by Ben Ross
  • Stories of the D’Entrecasteaux Channel – by Sheltered Passage
  • Shutterbug – Ten Tips for Photo Editing – by Roy Vieth
  • Anatomia Universa – by Special Arrangement
• TG #33 – by Editor
  • The Definitive Guide – How to Find and Photograph Sea Sparkle Bioluminescence – by Multiple Contributors
  • Four Steady Camera Tips for Improving Your Photos – by Michael Fuller
  • Flying Above the Treetops – Lasers, drones, and tree climbers at Warra – by Mark Grant
  • Sea Sparkle – Extreme Bioluminescence in Tasmanian Waters – by Multiple Contributors
• TG #32 – by Editor
  • Gallipoli: Through the Soldier’s Lens – by Public Domain Review
  • An Alphabetical Miscellany – A is for Acanthiza – by Nicole Gill
  • The Pillars at the Bottom of the World – by Stephanie Sykora
  • The Arrival of Hops and the Family of Water Willie – by Bert Spinks
• TG #31 – by Editor
  • What’s Killing the Endangered Forty-spotted Pardalote? – by Amanda Edworthy
  • The Forgotten Whispers of an Ancient Forest – by Tristan Stuart
  • Lost Worlds Restored – Fossil Replication – by Zach Fitzner
  • Mountaineering Tasmania – The Ducane Traverse – by Cam Walker
• TG #30 – by Editor
  • Climbing the World’s Tallest Flowering Tree – by Y.D. Bar-Ness
  • The Aurora from Above – by Special Arrangement
  • The Death of the Shearwaters – by Rebecca Wood
  • Ice Climbing Tasmania – by Wild Oates Productions
• TG #29 – by Editor
  • Images from the Wooden Boat Festival – by Wooden Boat Festival
  • Five Questions – Central Asia – by Editor
  • The Fate of the Cliefden Caves – by Special Arrangement
  • The Eldon Range – Magnet for the Slightly Deranged – by Ben Armstrong
• TG #28 – by Editor
  • An Artist’s View of Flinders Island – by Arwen Dyer
  • A Timeline of Tasmanian Aboriginal History – by Special Arrangement
  • Delicate Sculptures of Sand and Wind – by Special Arrangement
  • Tassie Bushrangers – Michael Howe – by Special Arrangement

Editor

The Editor of Tasmanian Geographic is a shadowy and mysterious figure who is often found deep underground, in the treetop branches, on coastal beaches, or high in the mountains.