Australia

Skyline from Harbour Bridge
Australia, Oceania, Places

Sydney

Sydney is probably the most known city of Australia. Located in the state of New South Wales it is Australia’s most populous city with over 4.921.000 inhabitants. The capital of Australia is Canberra, though. Next to popular sights as the Sydney Opera House or the Sydney Harbour Bridge one can […]

Jetty at Harbour Bridge
Australia, Oceania, Places

Harbour Bridge

The Sydney Harbour Bridge is the world’s tallest steel arch bridge and connects the city centre with the northern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is 1.149 metres long and 134 metres high. With a width of 49 metres it was even the world’s widest long-span bridge. Since […]

Carriageworks
Australia, Oceania, Places

Carriageworks

Carriageworks is a contemporary arts centre located in the district of Redfern in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is artist led and engages artists as well as audiences with contemporary ideas and issues. Built between 1880 and 1889 parts of the Eveleigh Rail Yards are heritage listed today. Home […]

Figure 8 Pools
Australia, Oceania, Places

Royal National Park

Founded on 26 April 1879 Royal National Park is Australia’s first national park. Worldwide only one national park exists longer: Yellowstone National Park in the United States of America. Originally known as „National Park“ it was renamed to „Royal National Park“ in 1955 to honour Queen Elizabeth. Despite this fact the […]

Sea Cliff Bridge
Australia, Oceania, Places

Sea Cliff Bridge

The Sea Cliff bridge is a balanced cantilever bridge. Shaped like a snake it connects the coastal villages of Coalcliff and Clifton in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It cost 52 million AUD. This bridge is one out of only seven off-shore parallel to coast bridges in the […]

Brighton Beach
Australia, Oceania, Places

Brighton Beach

Brighton Beach is located on the coastline of Port Phillip Bay next to Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Brighton has a population of over 21.200 and is named after its namesake in England. Brighton Beach, however, is well known for its 82 colourful bathing boxes. Not even […]

Entry of Metropolitan Tunnel
Australia, Oceania, Places

Metropolitan Tunnel

The Metropolitan Tunnel is a abandoned railway tunnel next to the small town of Helensburgh in New South Wales, Australia. Built in the 1880s the tunnel was closed a few decades later. Together with 7 other tunnels it is part of a section of the Sutherland to Wollongong line collectively […]

Koala
Australia, Oceania, Places

Maryborough

Located on the Mary River in Queensland, Australia, Maryborough is a city with approximately 21.800 inhabitants. Founded in 1847 it is part of an area called Fraser Coast. Maryborough was named after the Mary River which was named after Lady Mary Lennox. Beloved wife of Charles Augustus Fitzroy, Governor of […]

Coastline
Australia, Oceania, Places

Great Sandy National Park

Great Sandy National Park is part of the Fraser Coast Region in Queensland, Australia. With a size of over 74.400 hectares it stretches from Noosa Heads to Fraser Island and encompasses almost all of Fraser Island, the world’s largest sand island. Untouched beaches, rainforests, large sand dunes, freshwater lakes and mangrove […]