WITH its towering, 70m-high rock faces bordering 13 gorges and ancient Aboriginal rock art, it is easy to understand why Katherine Gorge attracts 250,000 visitors a year. For many, the journey to the ...

The Australian outback is one of the wildest places on Earth. A vast void of deserts and semi-arid wilderness, it stretches across about 80% of the country’s interior — an area roughly equivalent to ...

The Ghan has begun its historic first journey south from Darwin. The return trip to Adelaide will take two days. The event may have lacked the pomp and ceremony of yesterday's arrival, but for those ...

AT LAST, 126 YEARS after the north-to-south transcontinental route was conceived, Australia’s legendary Ghan train is running the entire 1,851 miles between Adelaide and Darwin. Named for the ...

On January 15, 2004, a goods train left Adelaide on the first transcontinental railway linking Darwin with the southern states. Two weeks later the iconic Ghan train made the same journey, terminating ...

MEASURING six and a half times the length of Adelaide Oval, Australia’s longest passenger train in more than a decade has embarked on its record-breaking journey. The Ghan departed Adelaide bound for ...

The heart of Australia -- hot, flat, dry and starkly beautiful -- will become more easily accessible to travelers this week when a new transcontinental rail line makes its inaugural run. On Tuesday, ...

The Ghan passenger service will begin its inaugural return trip from Darwin to Adelaide this morning. The departure will not herald the fanfare of the arrival of the first passenger train in Darwin ...

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