You never know what you’ll find on the beaches of Tasmania. As I picked my way along the crashing surf line, weaving among giant boulders tinted orange from an exotic lichen called xanthoria, I ...

TASMANIA’s Western Arthur Range in the heart of the South West conjures up an air of reverent mystique in bushwalking circles. Hikers tend to lower their voices and their eyes take on a dreamy look ...

The body of a bushwalker has been discovered on a notoriously difficult hiking trail in Tasmania. A bushwalker found the body on Saturday while hiking the Western Arthur Range Traverse and activated a ...

The first European to navigate these waters, Abel Tasman, named "Maria Eylandt'' in 1642, but the first to step on the island's shore was James Cox, in 1789. Nicholas Baudin's expedition surveyed the ...