The Australian Geographic is a quarterly geographic magazine created by Dick Smith in 1986. It focuses mainly on stories about Australia, or about Australian people in other countries. Geographic magazines Geographic magazines cover a variety of geography related subjects, including physical and human geography. ... Categories: Australia biography stubs ... Jump to: navigation, search 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
It is published by Australian Geographic, a privately-owned organisation who also manages a chain of retail stores similarly named in Australia. Each year, a portion of the profits is given to the Australian Geographic Society, which supports scientific research as well as environmental and community projects.
AustralianGeographic has recently sponsored their efforts to retrace the route of the first successful traverse of New Guinea from the mouth of the Fly River to the mouth of the Sepik River.
AustralianGeographic’s April-June journal spotlights the courage, ingenuity and tenacity of a variety of ordinary Australians involved in extraordinary feats of adventure and survival, both at home and abroad.
AustralianGeographic writer Andrew Bain, visited this eerie place where throughout the years hundreds of ships met their watery ends in the treacherous waters off the island, their wreckage still littering the coastline.