Sunset over Belougery Spire, the Breadknife, and Crater Bluff in the Warrumbungles. The first European to sight and explore the area was John Oxley in 1818 who named the range the Arbuthnot Range. The Aboriginal name 'Warrumbungles' from the Gamilaroi tribe meaning 'crooked mountains', soon took over as the most frequently used name. The mountains are volcanic dykes of peralkaline trachyte and were once part of a large shield volcano, that first erupted about 17 million years ago and stopped about 13 million years ago. Warrumbungle National Park, NSW, Australia
Bruny Island is made up of a North and South Island which are separated by a narrow isthmus called "The Neck". This shot looking towards South Bruny and its heavily timbered hills and large wilderness rainforest areas. The southern ocean facing south island is extremely rugged, with cliffs of dolerite that are over 200 metres above sea level. The neck is home to a colony of little penguins (Eudyptula minor) known locally as fairy penguins. Bruny Island is a small remote island located off the south cost of Tasmania. Australia.
First light of the day tries to break through the clouds over Mt Ida and the Travellers Range. The prominent cliffs and columns of the central highlands are made of Jurassic dolerite. This shot was taken from the southern end of Lake St Clair which is Australia's deepest lake owing its depth of 160m (or 525 ft) to its glacial origin. Unlike mainland Australia it is believed that Tasmania experienced four phases of major glaciation with a single ice cap covering about 4,000 sq km of the northwestern part of the central plateau along with other smaller isolated ice caps and valley glaciers. During these glacial periods sea levels were low enough to open the Bassian landbridge connecting Tasmania to Australia with grasslands and scrub heath found across the area where the Bass Strait now lies. Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Central Highlands, Tasmania, Australia.
