Australian Geographic

Australian Geographic

Frequency	Bimonthly
Founder	Dick Smith
Year founded	1986
Company	Bauer Media Group
Country	Australia
Website	www.australiangeographic.com.au

The Australian Geographic is a bi-monthly geographical magazine-style journal created by Dick Smith in 1986.^[1] It focuses mainly on stories about Australia, or about Australian people in other countries. The six editions published each year are available by subscription and on newsstands.

The magazine is known for the poster or sheet map included in each edition, as well as the high-quality photographs, the excellent maps from award-winning cartographers and the detailed technical illustrations. The 10th anniversary edition featured one of the country's most comprehensive maps of exploration ever produced. These maps have been used by explorers crossing Central Australia and Antarctica.

Australian Geographic has a comprehensive website which includes the entire magazine digital archive.^[2]

It was published by Australian Geographic, a privately owned organisation that also managed a chain of retail stores similarly named in Australia.^[3] Each year, a portion of the profits is given to the Australian Geographic Society,^[4] the non-profit arm of Australian Geographic which supports scientific research as well as environmental and community projects. Funds are also used to highlight and support Australian adventurers and produce related diaries, calendars and books. There are also Australian Geographic online store and 72 retail stores which sell products including Australiana, weather stations, telescopes, books and toys, these are now owned and run separately to the magazine publication.

History

The publication's offices were originally based in Terrey Hills north of Sydney. Smith was advised to include his name on the cover to aid the journal's establishment. After two years he removed his name from the cover. Smith wanted the publication to focus on accuracy by exclusively including articles that were peer-reviewed. In 1995, when subscriptions totalled more than 200,000, the publication was sold to Fairfax.

From September 2000 to December 2001, Australian Geographic published a bimonthly science and technology magazine known as Newton Graphic Science. There were, however, only eight issues published before the magazine went permanently out of print. In 2001 the journal's offices were threatened by fires during the Black Christmas bushfires.

ACP Magazines (now Bauer Media Group) purchased Australian Geographic in 2006; today the journal is based at Park Street Sydney. The current editor-in-chief of Australian Geographic is Chrissie Goldrick, while the editor is John Pickrell.

Awards

The Australian Geographic Society Adventure Award is Australia's longest-running award for adventure. It has been in operation since 1987, and is bestowed upon Australia's most respected adventurers. The award is judged on merit; therefore, not all of the categories are awarded annually. The society bestows awards as a celebration of achievement and not as a competition, as such.^[5] The award is given in two categories – Adventurer of the Year, and Young Adventurer of the Year.

Adventurer of the Year

Year	Awardee	Achievement
2014	Jason Beachcroft	The first person to kayak around Australia, incorporating Tasmania into the route.[6]
2013	Tim Jarvis	Leading the re-enactment expedition of Shackleton's epic 1916 journey.[7]
2012	Pat Farmer	Marathon running from the North to the South poles.[8]
2010	Linda Beilharz	First Australian woman to walk to the North and South poles.[9][10]
2009	Andrew Lock	Mountaineer who successfully climbed all fourteen of the tallest +8000m peaks in the world.[11]
2008	Jozef Truban	Trekked 3100 km across the Carpathian Mountains in 2007.[12]
2007	Lloyd Godson	Survived in a self-contained underwater habitat "the BioSUB" for 12 days.[13][14]
2006	Tim Cope	Travelled by horse from Mongolia to Hungary on the trail of nomads during 2004–2007.[15][16][17][18]
2005	Andrew McAuley	Paddled across the Gulf of Carpentaria in 2004 in a kayak.[19][20][21]
2004	Jon Johanson	First solo flight over the South Pole in a single-engine home-built aircraft.[22]
2003	Sue Fear	First Australian-born woman to climb Mount Everest.
2002	Jon Muir	First ever unassisted crossing of Australia in 128 days, from Port Augusta to Burketown.[23] Muir has also summitted Mount Everest in 1988, and has walked to both the south (1999) and north (2002) poles.[23][24]
2001	Tammy van Wisse	First person to swim the entire length of the Murray River in Australia.[25]
2000	Dick Smith	Flew a balloon across the Tasman Sea from New Zealand to Australia.[26]
1999	David Mason	Walked solo across Australia from Byron Bay to Steep Point in 1998.[27]
1998	David Lewis	Completed the world's first circumnavigation of the planet in multi-hull vessel.[28][29]
1997	Syd Kirkby	First man to venture into the Prince Charles Mountains in Antarctica with sled dogs during 1956–57.[30]
1996	Don & Margie McIntyre	Married couple who spent a year living in a tent in Antarctica.[31][32]
1995	Denis Bartell	Walked across Australia in 1984, and became the first person to walk solo across the width of the Simpson Desert.[33][34]
1994	Len Beadell	Completed the Woomera town survey, and supervised the construction of +6500 km of roads in outback Australia.[35][36]
1993	Warwick Deacock	Organised the first Australian climbing expedition of Annapurna III in the Himalayas during 1980.[37][38][39]
1992	Ron and Valerie Taylor	Became the first people to film Great White Sharks underwater in 1992 without the protection of a cage.[40][41]
1991	Warren Bonython	Walked across the Simpson Desert in 1973, and largely contributed to the formation of the Heysen Trail.[42][43][44]
1990	Hans Tholstrup	First maritime circumnavigation of Australia in an open boat, and first to cross Australia in a solar powered car.
1989	Dot Butler	Conservationalist, mountaineer, explorer, and long distance cyclist.[45]
1988	Philip Law	Scientist and Antarctic explorer.
1987	Colin Putt	Antarctic explorer and mountaineer. Amongst the first to summit Big Ben on Heard Island (Australia's Tallest Mountain).[46]

Young Adventurer of the Year

Year	Awardee	Achievement
2014	Belinda Ritchie	Completed a 12-month trek on horseback along the Bicentennial National Trail.[47]
2013	Ryan Campbell	Broke the World record for the youngest pilot to circumnavigate the globe solo in a single engine aircraft.[48]
2012	Lachie Carracher	Whitewater kayaked in some of Australia's mightiest rivers, as well as those snaking through Canada, China, Laos, Nepal, Uganda, Switzerland, Sumatra, USA, the UK and Mexico.[49]
2010	Jessica Watson	The youngest person ever to sail around the world solo and unassisted.[50]
2009	Angus Paradice	Paradice completed two challenging horse races in Mongolia at the age of 13.[51][52]
2008i	James Castrission	Completed the world's first Trans-Tasman kayak expedition from Australia to New Zealand with Justin Jones.[53][54]
2008ii	Justin Jones	Completed the world's first Trans-Tasman kayak expedition from Australia to New Zealand with James Castrission.
2007	Rex Pemberton	Third youngest person in the world to climb the seven summits.[55][56][57]
2006i	Stephen Fordyce	Completed a mid-winter traverse of the Western Arthurs range in Southwest Tasmania with Roger Chao.[58]
2006ii	Roger Chao	Completed a mid-winter traverse of the Western Arthurs range in Southwest Tasmania with Stephen Fordyce.
2005	Rex Pemberton	Youngest Australian to ever climb Mount Everest at the age of 21.[55]
2004i	Chris Bray	Walked from Port Davey to Strahan around 300 km of coastline with Jasper Timm.
2004ii	Jasper Timm	Walked from Port Davey to Strahan around 300 km of coastline with Chris Bray.
2003	Christopher Harris	Youngest person to attempt Mount Everest.
2002	Tim Cope	Cycled across Russia, Siberia, Mongolia, and China in 1999; and paddled the length of the Yenisey River in 2001.
2001i	Jeremy Richardson	unknown
2001ii	Jarlath Weingott	unknown
2001iii	Angus Weingott	unknown
2000	Krista Bernard	Cycled solo from Indonesia to England in 2000.
1999	not conferred	not conferred
1998	Chris Hatherly	Hatherly rode a bike around Australia in 11.5 months during 1996.
1997	David Dicks	unknown
1996i	Mark Shearer	unknown
1996ii	Eric Croker	unknown
1995	not conferred	unknown
1994i	Damon Howes	Spent a year near the Wanderer River on the South West coast of Tasmania with Deanne Howes.
1994ii	Deanne Howes	Spent a year near the Wanderer River on the South West coast of Tasmania with Damon Howes.
1993	not conferred	not conferred
1992i	James Woodford	unknown
1992ii	Adam Kerezsy	unknown
1991	Jeremy Durbin	unknown
1990	John Weir	unknown
1989	Richard Wood	Paddled the entirety of the Murray River in a Kayak. Then raised three rigs of kids. What a man.

See also

• Geographic magazine

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• Australian Geographic 10th Anniversary Collectors Edition No. 40 Oct – Dec 1995

External links

• Australian Geographic