The Australian fairy tern, Sternula nereis nereis, is a threatened coastal seabird that breeds in colonies on wide-open beaches.Their nests are simple, consisting of a scrape in the sand where ...

Lost ancient colony off coast of Australia that hundreds of thousands once called home discovered By . Katherine Donlevy. Published Dec. 22, 2023. Updated Dec. 23, 2023, 10:03 a.m. ET.

New South Wales, a state in southeast Australia, was founded by the British as a penal colony in 1788. Over the next 80 years, more than 160,000 convicts were transported to Australia from England ...

The latest work on Australia, Mr. Walker’s Australasian Democracy, gives as an illustration of this transientness of everything the fact that the three colonies of New South Wales, South ...

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a formal apology Monday for his country's role in ... Britain dispatched more than 150,000 children, involuntarily, to the colonies. In Australia, ...

IN this era of globalisation, and now of the little Aussie dollar evolving into one of the world's hardest currencies, Machu Picchu in the Andes and Alaskan cruises have become for holidays what ...

King Charles’ address to the Australian parliament erupted into chaos Monday after a senator shouted “you are not my king” and accused him of “committing genocide against our people.” ...

Australian Penal Colonies. Posted: January 8, 2025 | Last updated: March 6, 2025. Colonial America had been a destination for Britain's criminals for a while, but the American War of independence ...

Unprecedented bushfires raging in eastern Australia have killed at least four people and devastated wildlife in the region, killing hundreds of koalas and burning through their colonies so badly ...

Nobody knows how many Asian honey bee colonies reached Australia before the one that led to a successful invasion. So, though it’s possible for one colony to multiply and diversify, ...

New South Wales, a state in southeast Australia, was founded by the British as a penal colony in 1788. Over the next 80 years, more than 160,000 convicts were transported to Australia from England ...