You might think of Australia's arid center as a dry desert landscape devoid of aquatic life. But it's actually dotted with ...

In the Northern Territory’s Central Desert, Standley Chasm/Angkerle Atwatye is a geological, hydrological, cultural and ...

Editor’s Note: Today, Jim is traveling to the Great Australian Desert. He will share his experiences in his next four columns. Some experiences are worth repeating. This is my sixth trip to the Great ...

Editor’s Note: Cornett is currently in the Great Australian Desert. He shares his Australian desert experiences in this, his last, of a four-part series. For a moment, I thought I was in the Sahara or ...

The dramatic scenery of Glen Helen Gorge, in the heart of Australia, draws painters such as Australia's Albert Namatjira. Florian Sanktjohanser/dpa-tmn For hours already, the hikers have been trudging ...

July 16 (UPI) --For 22 years, scientists studied ant populations in the Simpson Desert in northern Australia. Their findings suggest the ant species in the region are surprisingly resilient, capable ...

News Channel 3's Caitlin Thropay has been following the making of "Australian Adventures" since the beginning. Shelly is a five-year-old tawny frogmouth. She's named after Shelly Beach in Australia.

Traveling in the Australian outback comes with plenty of risks. Help is often far away, and there are many hazards to trip up even the well-prepared adventurer. One Australian family has found ...

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The Simpson Desert stretches 68,000 miles across central Australia, but it looks as surreal as anything on Mars. There are more than 1,100 parallel sand dunes, each a wind-sculpted ridge of quartz ...

"There was once a woman who lived in the desert." So begins, almost like a children's story, the extraordinary biography of Daisy Bates, a woman of Irish birth who, in 1913 at the age of 54, wandered ...