Australia photos

Original photos of Australia. Includes galleries with images of cities, towns, landscapes, beaches, rainforests, and deserts.

Australian Cities

Australian Towns & Settlements

Australian Coastline & Beaches

Australian Landscapes

Australian Outback

Rural Australia

Australian Waterfalls

Australian Forests & Plants

Australian Animals

Australian Birds

Australian Butterflies

Australian Culture and People

About Australia

The continent of Australia has a variety of landscapes that showcase stunning rainforests, deserts, mountains, plains, and distinctive plant and animal life. The country's culture is equally diverse, where an old Aboriginal culture exists alongside a contemporary western society in urban areas, while the vast outback region offers a sharp contrast due to its remote location.

The island continent is encompassed by numerous smaller islands of different sizes, such as Tasmania (which is as large as Ireland) and minuscule coral cays. More than 900 tropical islands can be found in the Great Barrier Reef alone. The primary continent, which is comparable in size to mainland USA or Europe, presents a plethora of possibilities for discovery. Situated south of Asia, Australia possesses an extraordinary and unmistakable terrain, and is inhabited by a peculiar and almost extraterrestrial range of wildlife.

As the solitary country occupying a single continent, Australia experiences various climates. The uppermost third of the nation lies beyond the Tropic of Capricorn, where tropical rainforests make way for drier savannah plains. The center of the landmass is the location of the second largest desert area in the world after the Sahara and excluding Antarctica. As you go further south on the Australian contient, the climate becomes more mild and verdant, with the majority of the population dwelling on the southeast coast. Travelling up the east coast, the climate becomes hotter, but the land remains lush due to the Great Dividing Range mountain range, which captures ample clouds to supply rainfall to the coastal cities, towns, and landscapes. The island of Tasmania, positioned off the southern coast of the mainland, shares more similarities with nearby New Zealand than with the rest of Australia due to its cooler temperate climate and luxuriant wilderness landscapes.