You would need more than one lifetime to visit all of Australia’s 8000-plus islands, but you can make a start ... Read More ...

Bound entirely by ocean, and with a coastline spanning 16,000 miles, Australia is a great destination to explore by ship.

Like many island nations, Cocos Islands — a group of 27 small atolls that lie 2,936 kilometers west of Australia — are increasingly threatened by coastal erosion and rising sea levels driven ...

Madona, a 183-meter long vessel built in 1982, sank about 200 nautical miles north of the Cocos Islands, south of Indonesia and west of Australia.

Heard and McDonald Islands - a territory which sits 4,000km (2,485 miles) south-west of Australia - are only accessible via a seven-day boat trip from Perth, and haven't been visited by humans in ...

The communiqué issued at the conclusion of this year’s Pacific Islands Forum endorsed the position of Australia and New Zealand not to back a push by smaller island states for the rise in ...