Our final stop is a gravel clearing beside the sweeping sands of Frangipani Bay, just 800 metres from continental Australia’s ...

It could almost be Scotland if it were 30 degrees cooler. The tip – Cape York, Australia’s northernmost point.Credit: The northernmost point of mainland Australia is a small peninsula sticking ...

Remote Cape York Peninsula on Australia’s far northeast corner. (Photo: Shutterstock) There are only seven marine turtle species on the planet, and all are threatened by human activity, environmental ...

Lack of burning is a common problem with much of Australia’s native habitats, but Cape York has the best and oldest example of how the country has changed since Captain James Cook’s arrival.

Cape York Peninsula is home to extremely rich, complex cultural landscapes which have been vital to a number of Traditional Owners in the north-east of Australia for tens of thousands of years.

Scientists have created Australia's first region-wide map of strontium ratios in different parts of Cape York The map could be used to help pinpoint where Indigenous remains from north-east ...

An expedition to Cape York Peninsula in north-east Australia has found three vertebrate species new to science and isolated for millions of years -- a bizarre looking leaf-tail gecko, a golden ...

In Australia’s far north, Hawksbill, Flatback and Olive Ridley turtles come ashore on the beaches of western Cape York between June and November every year, females hauling themselves across the sand ...

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THE closure of a Cape York biosecurity centre will leave Australia exposed to potentially "catastrophic" risk of disease, rural industry peak body AgForce has warned.