Magnetic Island, Australia
Magnetic Island
After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Melbourne, Australia
Coop's Shot Tower
This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.
Ventnor, Australia
Penguin Parade At Phillip Island
An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.
Fraser Island, Australia
SS Maheno
WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.
Sydney, Australia
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!
Katoomba, Australia
Three Sisters
This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.
Millers Point, Australia
Sydney Observatory
This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.
Port Campbell, Australia
Loch Ard Gorge
A clear example of the process of erosion in action.
Fraser Island, Australia
Lake McKenzie / Boorangoora
The only pollutant in the clear blue water is sunscreen.
Hamelin Pool, Australia
The Stromatolites of Hamelin Pool
Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.
Cervantes, Australia
The Pinnacles
Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.
Princetown, Australia
The Twelve Apostles
Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."
Sydney, Australia
Waverley Cemetery
A self-funded cemetery with a long list of inhabitants.
