Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australia’s Newest National Park Has Some of the Clearest Water on Earth Pristine blue waters and gorgeous coral make the Houtman ...

Coral reefs on a chain of islands off Western Australia were almost untouched by a prolonged heatwave that devastated corals in other regions in early 2025. Researchers hope that learning the secret ...

The newest addition to Australia’s national park inventory, the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, boasts both extraordinary human and natural histories. IT WAS JUST HOURS before dawn on 4 June 1629 when ...

60kms off the WA coast in the Indian Ocean, is an archipelago of 122 islands with a dark, rich history dating back 150 years before Captain Cook. The Houtman Abrolhos Islands are isolated, stunning, ...

The light plane, a Gibbs Airvan GA8, overshot the runway at the southern end of Rat Island, which forms part of the Abrolhos Islands in WA, about 8.40am Thursday. The aircraft ended up partially ...

Dozens of passengers died, but the tragedy of the shipwreck was soon overshadowed by a nightmarish mutiny that killed 125 men, women and children in Australia’s first (and worst) mass murder. The ...