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.

2000-12-31 04:00:00 PDT Australia-- New Year's Day 2001 has an added significance in Australia the world's only continent-size nation turns 100 tomorrow. A grand parade through Sydney will recall ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...