Last week, the Queensland government launched the ambitious Destination 2045 tourism plan, which aims to make the state a global leader in tourism. The plan highlights that one in six jobs in tropical ...

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.

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 ...

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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 ...

Police from the remote Cape York town of Bamaga have helped a disabled child tick standing on mainland Australia's northernmost point, off his bucket list. Sidney Cook, nine, was diagnosed with ...