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.