Australia Audio & Video

Amateur Traveler Podcast is a show about traveling for the love of travel.

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion up, down, and over the Appalachian Trail...

Go back in time and experience Darwin through the day of the first Japanese air raid attack on Australia, with the ABC Bombing of Darwin Walking Tour.

'Gondwana', the ancient super continent, evolved over forty millenia into several continents including Australia. Just two centuries after European settlement, the human impact on the land, massive species extinction, and climate change, pose serious threats to the continent's fragile ecology.

This was written in the mid 1800’s at time when Australia saw an influx of immigration from Europe and when England was sending some prisoners to Australia rather than to prisons.

Ed Stafford - adventurer extraordinaire and Guinness World Record holder for walking the length of the Amazon River - likes a challenge.

This is an early history of the failed attempt to found the colony of North Australia at Gladstone, in what is now Central Queensland.

The iconic Sydney to Hobart Race, a 723-mile deepwater challenge - often called the 'Everest' of offshore ocean racing - is considered one of the toughest in the world....