Australia / Oceania

"Best" is a subjective word at, err... best. What one person or group values as the "top" will never be the same for everyone – still, when you're looking for something and you want the "best", it's always nice when…

This enormous hexagon, a mile and a half in diameter, looks like some kind of massive occult symbol etched in the scrub on the remote western coast of Australia, 700 miles north of Perth. In fact, we're looking at a…

Obscure geography trivia time: where would you find the steepest street in the world? You might guess San Francisco. If you're a Guinness Book of Records-reading smart alec, you might say New Zealand. As it turns out, you'd be wrong…

Peering out the window of the little airtaxi that has brought you to The Rat's Nest, or Rottnest Island, 18 km southwest off the coast of Australia, you'll notice the island's name spelled out in trees. This little island, only…

In The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe, when the three Pevensie children (minus Edmund) arrived at Aslan's camp, they were happening upon what we (of the other world) know as Elephant Rocks. Looking from above, the boulders look like…

Clipperton Island, a remote coral atoll, is a place of mysterious geography with a disturbing history.