Qualla: Australia & New Zealand https://qualla.com/australia-nz en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:03 GMT Qualla episodic false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Australia & New Zealand https://qualla.com/australia-nz Macquarie Harbour Penal Station https://qualla.com/macquarie-harbour-penal-station/ Photo credit Scott Davis, CC BY 2.5. On a wooded speck of an island at the bottom of the world, Britain built the prison it sent men to when every other prison had failed to break them.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:01:40 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/0/r/q/macquarie-harbour-penal-station-wp/r0rq-macquarie-harbour-penal-station-combined.mp3 5:01 full Macquarie Harbour https://qualla.com/macquarie-harbour/ Photo credit M. Murphy, Public domain. Six times the size of Sydney Harbour and guarded by a passage the convicts named Hell's Gates, this tea-dark fjord is where Tasmania's rivers, mountains, and history all drain to the sea.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:01:40 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/0/r/r/macquarie-harbour-wp/r0rr-macquarie-harbour-combined.mp3 4:30 full Southwest National Park https://qualla.com/southwest-national-park/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. Tasmania's largest national park has exactly one road, fewer than a hundred wild orange-bellied parrots on Earth, and a wilderness so trackless you can only reach most of it on foot, by boat, or by light plane.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:01:40 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/0/r/u/southwest-national-park-wp/r0ru-southwest-national-park-combined.mp3 4:55 full Franklin Dam Controversy https://qualla.com/franklin-dam-controversy/ Photo credit Robyn Jay from Sydney, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0. A single photograph of mist on a wild river helped topple an Australian government and save the Franklin from a dam, in the campaign that gave the modern green movement its first great victory.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:01:40 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/0/r/w/franklin-dam-controversy-wp/r0rw-franklin-dam-controversy-combined.mp3 5:04 full Strahan https://qualla.com/strahan/ Photo credit 夏目・龍之介, CC BY-SA 3.0. Once the poor relation to the booming mining cities behind it, this little port on Macquarie Harbour outlived them all to become the gateway to Tasmania's wild west coast.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:01:40 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/0/x/2/strahan-wk/r0x2-strahan-combined.mp3 4:00 full Kalbarri National Park https://qualla.com/kalbarri-national-park/ Photo credit Brian W. Schaller, FAL. Where the Murchison River cut an 80-kilometre gorge through banded red-and-white sandstone, a glassy platform now floats 100 metres above the drop.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/1/1/kalbarri-national-park-wp/qe11-kalbarri-national-park-combined.mp3 4:12 full Murchison House Station https://qualla.com/murchison-house-station/ Photo credit Hughesdarren, CC BY-SA 4.0. A cottage of mud brick and ancient sandstone, built by convicts in 1858, where a man who was once heir to the richest fortune in India came to raise cattle.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/1/4/murchison-house-station-wp/qe14-murchison-house-station-combined.mp3 4:05 full Tumblagooda Sandstone https://qualla.com/tumblagooda-sandstone/ In the red rock around Kalbarri, faint parallel rows of dents record some of the first footsteps any animal ever pressed into dry land.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/1/4/tumblagooda-sandstone-wp/qe14-tumblagooda-sandstone-combined.mp3 4:17 full Z Bend https://qualla.com/z-bend/ Where the Murchison River doubles back on itself in a sharp zigzag, the gorge wall drops some 150 metres, and abseilers rappel into a kilometre-thick stack of ancient stone.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/1/6/z-bend-wp/qe16-z-bend-combined.mp3 3:48 full Murchison River Gorge https://qualla.com/murchison-river-gorge/ Over more than 80 kilometres, a meandering river has sawn a gorge up to 129 metres deep through some of the oldest evidence of life on land.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/1/7/murchison-river-gorge-wp/qe17-murchison-river-gorge-combined.mp3 3:57 full Ajana https://qualla.com/ajana/ A railhead built at the edge of a rabbit fence, where the wheat belt runs out and the long road to Kalbarri begins.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/1/9/ajana-wp/qe19-ajana-combined.mp3 4:07 full Eurardy Reserve https://qualla.com/eurardy-reserve/ Photo credit Lincolnwong at English Wikipedia, Public domain. A former sheep station turned wildflower sanctuary, where some 700 plant species and two dozen orchids bloom on the edge of one of Earth's great botanical hotspots.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/1/e/eurardy-reserve-wp/qe1e-eurardy-reserve-combined.mp3 4:30 full Zuytdorp Cliffs https://qualla.com/zuytdorp-cliffs/ Photo credit Zamphuor, Public domain. A 150-kilometre wall of limestone named for a Dutch ship that struck it in 1712 — and for the survivors who climbed the cliffs and walked into the unknown.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/1/j/zuytdorp-cliffs-wp/qe1j-zuytdorp-cliffs-combined.mp3 4:23 full Edel Land National Park https://qualla.com/edel-land-national-park/ Photo credit Joshua Tagicakibau, CC BY-SA 4.0. The wild western arm of Shark Bay — Malgana Country for millennia, the place where the first Europeans met the Australian mainland, and now a national park in the making.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/7/edel-land-national-park-wp/qe27-edel-land-national-park-combined.mp3 4:12 full Steep Point https://qualla.com/steep-point/ Photo credit User:JarrahTree, CC BY 2.5 au. The westernmost tip of mainland Australia — a sand-track pilgrimage to the place that sees the continent's final sunset, where the open ocean has thrown up both tsunamis and an unforgettable tale of survival.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/7/steep-point-wp/qe27-steep-point-combined.mp3 4:09 full Heirisson Prong https://qualla.com/heirisson-prong/ On a narrow finger of land in Shark Bay, a fence drawn across the sand once held back two centuries of extinction.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/d/heirisson-prong-wp/qe2d-heirisson-prong-combined.mp3 4:49 full Useless Loop, Western Australia https://qualla.com/useless-loop-western-australia/ Photo credit JarrahTree, CC BY 2.5 au. A French sailor dismissed this looping inlet as worthless for ships; two centuries later it became one of the world's great salt fields.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/e/useless-loop-western-australia-wp/qe2e-useless-loop-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:29 full Shell Beach (Western Australia) https://qualla.com/shell-beach-western-australia/ Photo credit Lpm43792, CC BY-SA 3.0. Not a grain of sand lies here. For 60 kilometres and ten metres deep, the beach is made entirely of tiny white shells.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/f/shell-beach-western-australia-wp/qe2f-shell-beach-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:32 full L'Haridon Bight https://qualla.com/l-haridon-bight/ Too salty for almost anything to live in, this quiet bay grew a beach of shells and harbours life older than complex animals.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/g/l-haridon-bight-wp/qe2g-l-haridon-bight-combined.mp3 4:20 full Peron Peninsula https://qualla.com/peron-peninsula/ A red finger of land pointing into Shark Bay, named for a French naturalist who died young, where Australia is trying to undo its own history.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/g/peron-peninsula-wp/qe2g-peron-peninsula-combined.mp3 4:25 full French Western Australia https://qualla.com/french-western-australia/ Photo credit Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 3.0. For a few hours in 1772, and again under Napoleon a generation later, the western third of Australia very nearly became French.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/j/french-western-australia-wp/qe2j-french-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:21 full Shark Bay Marine Park https://qualla.com/shark-bay-marine-park/ Photo credit Brian W. Schaller, FAL. Beneath the turquoise shallows of this World Heritage bay lies the largest seagrass meadow on Earth, feeding one of the planet's biggest populations of dugongs.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/s/shark-bay-marine-park-wp/qe2s-shark-bay-marine-park-combined.mp3 4:16 full Francois Peron National Park https://qualla.com/francois-peron-national-park/ Photo credit Mason Sullivan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Where rust-red desert dunes crash straight into white sand and turquoise sea, a former sheep station has become a sanctuary in one of Australia's boldest experiments in bringing back the wild.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/t/francois-peron-national-park-wp/qe2t-francois-peron-national-park-combined.mp3 4:48 full Faure Island https://qualla.com/faure-island/ Photo credit Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain. A low red-and-white island in Shark Bay, once stripped bare by sheep and cats, has become an ark for some of Australia's rarest mammals.

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Image: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center | Public domain

]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/u/faure-island-wp/qe2u-faure-island-combined.mp3 5:01 full Ocean Park Aquarium https://qualla.com/ocean-park-aquarium/ Photo credit Brian0918, CC BY-SA 2.5. On a windswept point south of Denham, a family of marine biologists built Shark Bay's only aquarium, where the sharks are fed in the open and exhausted sea turtles come to recover.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/u/ocean-park-aquarium-wp/qe2u-ocean-park-aquarium-combined.mp3 4:12 full Monkey Mia https://qualla.com/monkey-mia/ Photo credit Nachoman-au, CC BY-SA 3.0. On a shallow beach in Shark Bay, wild dolphins have swum into the laps of waves to meet people for generations, turning a remote pearling camp into one of the world's great windows onto the minds of another species.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/2/v/monkey-mia-wp/qe2v-monkey-mia-combined.mp3 4:11 full Woodleigh Impact Structure https://qualla.com/woodleigh-impact-structure/ Beneath a quiet sheep station east of Shark Bay lies the buried scar of one of the largest asteroid impacts ever found in Australia, a crater no one can see from the surface and no one knew was there until a drill bit and a gravity meter gave it away.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/3/e/woodleigh-impact-structure-wp/qe3e-woodleigh-impact-structure-combined.mp3 4:34 full Bibra Family https://qualla.com/bibra-family/ Photo credit CSvBibra (talk) (Uploads), Public domain. The name of a 900-year-old German noble family of prince-bishops and barons travelled, by an unlikely path, to one of the most remote stretches of the Western Australian coast, where a younger son grazed sheep and traded guano on a windswept island in Shark Bay.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/3/h/bibra-family-wp/qe3h-bibra-family-combined.mp3 4:23 full Pimbee National Park https://qualla.com/pimbee-national-park/ One of Western Australia's newest national parks protects a stretch of red Gascoyne shrubland that the Yingkarta people have cared for far longer than any park existed, now managed jointly by Traditional Owners and the state.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/3/w/pimbee-national-park-wp/qe3w-pimbee-national-park-combined.mp3 4:11 full Wooleen Station https://qualla.com/wooleen-station/ On a vast, drought-worn pastoral lease in the Murchison outback, two young people made a radical bet: that the way to save degraded land was to take the livestock off it and let the country, and even the dingoes, heal themselves.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/4/t/wooleen-station-wp/qe4t-wooleen-station-combined.mp3 4:13 full Boolardy https://qualla.com/boolardy/ A remote Murchison cattle station became one of the radio-quietest places on Earth, so astronomers could listen to the first stars switching on.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/4/y/boolardy-wp/qe4y-boolardy-combined.mp3 5:26 full Mullewa–Meekatharra railway https://qualla.com/mullewa-meekatharra-railway/ Photo credit not stated, Public domain. The narrow-gauge lifeline that hauled the Murchison gold rush out of the desert, then quietly vanished from the map when the trucks took over.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/5/5/mullewa-meekatharra-railway-wp/qe55-mullewa-meekatharra-railway-combined.mp3 4:44 full Dalgaranga crater https://qualla.com/dalgaranga-crater/ A 24-metre dent in the Australian outback, gouged by a meteorite so rare that no other crater on Earth is known to share its kind.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/5/6/dalgaranga-crater-wp/qe56-dalgaranga-crater-combined.mp3 4:32 full Mount Magnet, Western Australia https://qualla.com/mount-magnet-western-australia/ Photo credit Wsr15, CC BY-SA 4.0. The hill that swung an explorer's compass gave its name to the longest-surviving gold town in Western Australia, where nuggets were once dug up like potatoes.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/5/b/mount-magnet-western-australia-wp/qe5b-mount-magnet-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:48 full Austin, Western Australia https://qualla.com/austin-western-australia/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. A vanished goldfields town that never stood on solid ground, built on an island in the middle of a salt lake the railway had to cross to reach it.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/5/f/austin-western-australia-wp/qe5f-austin-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:41 full Day Dawn, Western Australia https://qualla.com/day-dawn-western-australia/ Three thousand people once lived in this scrap of red dirt south of Cue; today a single stone office is all that proves they were here.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/5/g/day-dawn-western-australia-wp/qe5g-day-dawn-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:05 full Great Fingall Mine office https://qualla.com/great-fingall-mine-office/ Photo credit Calistemon, CC BY-SA 3.0. An elegant Italianate stone office, built to run a goldfield empire, now stands alone at the lip of an open pit - the last building of a town that no longer exists.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/5/g/great-fingall-mine-office-wp/qe5g-great-fingall-mine-office-combined.mp3 4:07 full Big Bell, Western Australia https://qualla.com/big-bell-western-australia/ Photo credit Phcrack, CC BY-SA 3.0. A planned 1930s gold town southwest of Cue whose grandest ruin, the art deco Big Bell Hotel, was said to hold one of the longest bars in Australia.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/5/s/big-bell-western-australia-wp/qe5s-big-bell-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:04 full Cuddingwarra, Western Australia https://qualla.com/cuddingwarra-western-australia/ A goldfield ghost town between Cue and Big Bell, first called 'Dead Finish' - it had three pubs, a coach line and a battery before the gold gave out around 1900.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/5/u/cuddingwarra-western-australia-wp/qe5u-cuddingwarra-western-australia-combined.mp3 3:32 full Cue, Western Australia https://qualla.com/cue-western-australia/ Photo credit Calistemon, CC BY-SA 3.0. Once 10,000 strong and crowned 'Queen of the Murchison,' Cue is now home to 178 people who keep one of Australia's most intact gold-boom streetscapes alive in the desert.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/5/u/cue-western-australia-wp/qe5u-cue-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:17 full Wilgie Mia https://qualla.com/wilgie-mia/ In a hillside of the Weld Range, the Wajarri people have mined red ochre for tens of thousands of years, making Wilgie Mia perhaps the oldest continuously worked mine on Earth.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/5/w/wilgie-mia-wp/qe5w-wilgie-mia-combined.mp3 4:39 full Mount Narryer https://qualla.com/mount-narryer/ A low quartzite ridge in the Murchison outback holds detrital zircon crystals more than four billion years old, among the oldest fragments of Earth ever found.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/6/2/mount-narryer-wp/qe62-mount-narryer-combined.mp3 4:33 full Experiment to Detect the Global EoR Signature https://qualla.com/experiment-to-detect-the-global-eor-signature/ Photo credit Suzyj, CC BY-SA 4.0. A table-sized radio antenna in the Murchison desert claimed in 2018 to have heard the first stars switch on, a stunning result that remains fiercely disputed.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/6/b/experiment-to-detect-the-global-eor-signature-wp/qe6b-experiment-to-detect-the-global-eor-signature-combined.mp3 4:22 full Milly Milly https://qualla.com/milly-milly/ A vast sheep station on the Murchison River whose history runs through pioneers, floods, drought, two unsolved deaths, and a stallion bred from a Melbourne Cup champion.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/6/g/milly-milly-wp/qe6g-milly-milly-combined.mp3 5:04 full Mileura Station https://qualla.com/mileura-station/ A Murchison sheep station that became an unlikely cradle of science, hosting research into Earth's oldest minerals and the first site tests for the Square Kilometre Array.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/7/3/mileura-station-wp/qe73-mileura-station-combined.mp3 5:13 full Dorre Island https://qualla.com/dorre-island/ A windswept sliver of Shark Bay that holds two truths at once: a refuge for animals found almost nowhere else on Earth, and the place where Aboriginal women and children were confined far from home and many never left.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/8/3/dorre-island-wp/qe83-dorre-island-combined.mp3 4:44 full Bernier Island https://qualla.com/bernier-island/ On the mainland opposite this island stands a bronze sculpture called 'Don't Look at the Islands' — a memorial to the Aboriginal people sent here in chains a century ago, to an island that is now a sanctuary for animals found nowhere else.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/8/6/bernier-island-wp/qe86-bernier-island-combined.mp3 4:51 full Carnarvon Tracking Station https://qualla.com/carnarvon-tracking-station/ Photo credit Виктор В, CC BY-SA 3.0. For twelve years, a cluster of antennas in the Western Australian scrub was NASA's eyes and ears on spacecraft bound for the Moon — and often the last station to hear from them before they vanished over the Pacific.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/8/f/carnarvon-tracking-station-wp/qe8f-carnarvon-tracking-station-combined.mp3 4:33 full Carnarvon https://qualla.com/carnarvon/ Photo credit Gruyere, CC BY-SA 3.0. A banana-growing town at the mouth of a river that is usually dry, where a giant Cold War dish still points at the sky and the night reveals a southern firmament most northerners have never seen.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/8/f/carnarvon-wk/qe8f-carnarvon-combined.mp3 4:35 full OTC Satellite Earth Station Carnarvon https://qualla.com/otc-satellite-earth-station-carnarvon/ Photo credit Apollo 8 crewmember Bill Anders, Public domain. A strange scoop-shaped antenna in the Western Australian desert carried Australia's first satellite television, reunited migrant families across the world by live link, and relayed humanity's first steps on the Moon — and it may soon watch deep space again.

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Image: Apollo 8 crewmember Bill Anders | Public domain

]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/8/f/otc-satellite-earth-station-carnarvon-wp/qe8f-otc-satellite-earth-station-carnarvon-combined.mp3 4:39 full Quobba https://qualla.com/quobba/ Photo credit Travel & Shit from Brighton, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0. On Australia's westernmost sheep station, the ocean fires plumes of seawater through the cliffs, a blunt sign warns that king waves kill, and a quiet cairn marks the country's worst naval loss.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/8/t/quobba-wp/qe8t-quobba-combined.mp3 4:26 full Red Bluff https://qualla.com/red-bluff-western-australia/ Photo credit Travel & Shit from Brighton, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0. A legendary left-hand wave, a campground at the end of a corrugated track, and a horizon with no phone signal: Red Bluff is the Gascoyne coast distilled to surf, silence and self-reliance.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/8/t/red-bluff-western-australia-wk/qe8t-red-bluff-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:09 full MV Korean Star https://qualla.com/mv-korean-star-1984/ Photo credit Calistemon, CC BY-SA 4.0. A rusting bulk carrier lies broken in two at the foot of a cliff near Cape Cuvier, driven ashore by a cyclone in 1988 while it waited to load salt, and somehow it took no lives at all.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/8/w/mv-korean-star-1984-wp/qe8w-mv-korean-star-1984-combined.mp3 4:36 full Lake MacLeod https://qualla.com/lake-macleod/ A salt lake the size of a small country lies below sea level on the Gascoyne coast, fed not by rivers but by the ocean seeping up through the ground, and dried into salt, gypsum and a haven for migratory birds.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/8/y/lake-macleod-wp/qe8y-lake-macleod-combined.mp3 4:41 full Gascoyne Junction https://qualla.com/gascoyne-junction-western-australia/ Photo credit Calistemon, CC BY-SA 4.0. A tiny outback town where two rivers meet, holding Australia's record for the hottest Christmas, repeatedly drowned by floods on a river that is usually bone dry, and serving as the gateway to Mount Augustus.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/9/c/gascoyne-junction-western-australia-wp/qe9c-gascoyne-junction-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:41 full Kennedy Range National Park https://qualla.com/kennedy-range-national-park/ Photo credit Aussie Oc at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. A 150-kilometre sandstone mesa rising from the red Gascoyne plains, its sheer eastern wall slashed by gorges that hold cool shade and 20,000 years of human history.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/9/u/kennedy-range-national-park-wp/qe9u-kennedy-range-national-park-combined.mp3 4:22 full Gnaraloo https://qualla.com/gnaraloo/ Photo credit Eulinky, CC BY 2.0. A remote pastoral station at the wild southern end of the Ningaloo coast, where one of the planet's heaviest left-hand surf breaks shares the shore with one of its largest loggerhead turtle rookeries.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/b/8/gnaraloo-wp/qeb8-gnaraloo-combined.mp3 4:20 full Warroora https://qualla.com/warroora/ Photo credit Eugene Regis, CC BY 2.0. A working cattle station south of Coral Bay whose 50 kilometres of Ningaloo lagoon frontage has become a byword for low-key, off-grid beach camping at the edge of a World Heritage reef.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/b/g/warroora-wp/qebg-warroora-combined.mp3 4:23 full Mauds Landing https://qualla.com/mauds-landing/ A weathered beach near Coral Bay where rotting jetty piles mark a forgotten wool port — and where, a century later, a rejected mega-resort turned this quiet shore into the front line of Australia's largest reef-conservation campaign.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/b/u/mauds-landing-wp/qebu-mauds-landing-combined.mp3 4:21 full Ningaloo Station https://qualla.com/ningaloo-station/ Photo credit Hughesdarren, CC0. The remote sheep station that lent its name — an old Aboriginal word for the land jutting into the sea — to one of the world's great fringing reefs, and whose campers later rallied to keep its coastline in local hands.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/b/v/ningaloo-station-wp/qebv-ningaloo-station-combined.mp3 4:23 full Ningaloo Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters) https://qualla.com/ningaloo-marine-park-commonwealth-waters/ Photo credit NeilsPhotography, CC BY 2.0. Off the deeper edge of Ningaloo Reef, a federal marine park guards the corridor where the world's largest fish gather each autumn and humpback whales pass on their long migration.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/b/x/ningaloo-marine-park-commonwealth-waters-wp/qebx-ningaloo-marine-park-commonwealth-waters-combined.mp3 3:28 full Point Cloates https://qualla.com/point-cloates/ A low headland on the Ningaloo coast that early mariners doubted even existed, later home to Western Australia's first modern shore whaling station and a lighthouse now standing in ruins.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/b/y/point-cloates-wp/qeby-point-cloates-combined.mp3 3:37 full North West Coastal Highway https://qualla.com/north-west-coastal-highway/ Photo credit Ben Cordia, CC BY-SA 4.0. A 1,300-kilometre sealed lifeline that strings together Geraldton, Carnarvon and the Pilbara ports across some of the emptiest, oldest country in Australia.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/c/1/north-west-coastal-highway-wk/qec1-north-west-coastal-highway-combined.mp3 4:23 full Burringurrah Aboriginal Community https://qualla.com/burringurrah-aboriginal-community/ Photo credit Calistemon, CC BY-SA 4.0. A Wajarri community in the Gascoyne, living at the foot of the mountain that bears its name and its oldest story - the boy Burringurrah, whose body, in Wajarri tradition, became the rock itself.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/e/5/burringurrah-aboriginal-community-wp/qee5-burringurrah-aboriginal-community-combined.mp3 3:41 full Mount Augustus National Park https://qualla.com/mount-augustus-national-park/ The park guarding Burringurrah - a sandstone ridge nearly eight kilometres long, more than twice the size of Uluru, and one of the loneliest great landmarks in Australia.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/e/j/mount-augustus-national-park-wp/qeej-mount-augustus-national-park-combined.mp3 3:41 full Mount Augustus Station https://qualla.com/mount-augustus-station/ Photo credit Graeme Churchard from Bristol, UK, CC BY 2.0. A million-acre cattle run in the shadow of the world's largest rock, where frontier conflict, a failed gold rush, and a century of drought and rain shaped one of the Gascoyne's great pastoral leases.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/e/j/mount-augustus-station-wp/qeej-mount-augustus-station-combined.mp3 4:11 full Mount Augustus (Burringurrah) https://qualla.com/mount-augustus-western-australia/ Photo credit Graeme Churchard from Bristol, UK, CC BY 2.0. A colossal sandstone ridge twice the size of Uluru, sacred to the Wajarri people as the body of a boy named Burringurrah.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/e/j/mount-augustus-western-australia-wp/qeej-mount-augustus-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:10 full Paraburdoo Mine https://qualla.com/paraburdoo-mine/ Photo credit Calistemon, CC BY-SA 3.0. Deep in the iron heart of the Pilbara, an open pit named for 'feathered meat' feeds a railway to the sea and helps supply the ore that built modern Australia.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/g/e/paraburdoo-mine-wp/qege-paraburdoo-mine-combined.mp3 4:09 full Juukan Gorge https://qualla.com/juukan-gorge/ Photo credit Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0. For 46,000 years, Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura families sheltered in two caves in the Pilbara. In May 2020, a mining company legally blew them apart.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/g/r/juukan-gorge-wp/qegr-juukan-gorge-combined.mp3 6:06 full Mount Tom Price Mine https://qualla.com/mount-tom-price-mine/ Photo credit Bäras, CC BY-SA 3.0. The mine that started it all - the Pilbara's first great iron operation, named for an American executive who died before he ever saw the mountain of ore he helped find.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/g/w/mount-tom-price-mine-wp/qegw-mount-tom-price-mine-combined.mp3 4:23 full Sandstone Gold Mine https://qualla.com/sandstone-gold-mine/ A modern open-pit gold operation that has changed hands eight times in a century, working the same auriferous ground that built and then nearly buried a Western Australian town.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/h/b/sandstone-gold-mine-wp/qehb-sandstone-gold-mine-combined.mp3 4:11 full Sandstone, Western Australia https://qualla.com/sandstone-western-australia/ Photo credit Auxodium III, CC BY-SA 4.0. A gold-rush town of fewer than a hundred souls, guarding a natural basalt arch, an underground brewery cut into a cliff, and the memory of the eight thousand who once lived here.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/h/b/sandstone-western-australia-wp/qehb-sandstone-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:14 full Yarrabubba https://qualla.com/yarrabubba/ A working cattle station in the Western Australian outback that lent its name to one of the oldest known meteorite impacts on Earth - a 2.229-billion-year-old scar whose title is now contested, and which may have helped thaw a frozen world.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/h/m/yarrabubba-wp/qehm-yarrabubba-combined.mp3 5:03 full Nannine, Western Australia https://qualla.com/nannine-western-australia/ Photo credit not stated, Public domain. The first town of the Murchison goldfield, raised on the shore of a salt lake and now almost entirely vanished - its grandest hall carried away to a neighbour, its name older than gold itself.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/h/p/nannine-western-australia-wp/qehp-nannine-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:20 full Agnew Gold Mine https://qualla.com/agnew-gold-mine/ A northern Goldfields gold mine where six men once drowned underground in a desert flash flood - and which now draws much of its power from one of Australia's largest renewable microgrids.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/j/8/agnew-gold-mine-wp/qej8-agnew-gold-mine-combined.mp3 4:24 full Lawlers, Western Australia https://qualla.com/lawlers-western-australia/ A gold-rush boomtown that briefly ranked as Western Australia's third-largest, Lawlers has dwindled to a single standing building in the red dust northeast of Perth.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/j/8/lawlers-western-australia-wp/qej8-lawlers-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:33 full Leinster Nickel Mine https://qualla.com/leinster-nickel-mine/ Photo credit Calistemon, CC BY-SA 3.0. One of Australia's great nickel mines, Leinster built its own town in the desert, rode decades of brutal price swings, and was paused indefinitely in 2024 as the global nickel market collapsed.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/j/c/leinster-nickel-mine-wp/qejc-leinster-nickel-mine-combined.mp3 4:49 full Sir Samuel, Western Australia https://qualla.com/sir-samuel-western-australia/ Named for a South Australian judge who never saw it, this Goldfields boomtown once held three banks and a racecourse before the gold ran out and the desert took it back.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/j/d/sir-samuel-western-australia-wp/qejd-sir-samuel-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:23 full Cosmos Nickel Mine https://qualla.com/cosmos-nickel-mine/ Photo credit NASA, Public domain. A nickel deposit so rich it stunned geologists, Cosmos changed hands for billions and was reborn at vast cost as the Odysseus mine, only to be mothballed again as nickel prices crashed.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/j/e/cosmos-nickel-mine-wp/qeje-cosmos-nickel-mine-combined.mp3 4:53 full Yeelirrie uranium project https://qualla.com/yeelirrie-uranium-project/ One of Australia's largest undeveloped uranium deposits, Yeelirrie has sat unmined for fifty years, held back by collapsing markets, tiny groundwater creatures, and the enduring resistance of the Tjiwarl traditional owners.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/j/k/yeelirrie-uranium-project-wp/qejk-yeelirrie-uranium-project-combined.mp3 5:05 full Mount Keith Mine https://qualla.com/mount-keith-mine/ Photo credit Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain. One of the world's largest open-pit nickel mines, carved 300 metres deep into 2.7-billion-year-old rock in the red emptiness of the northern Goldfields.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/j/t/mount-keith-mine-wp/qejt-mount-keith-mine-combined.mp3 4:38 full Nickel mining in Western Australia https://qualla.com/nickel-mining-in-western-australia/ Photo credit Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Public domain. From a 1966 discovery near Kambalda to the most notorious share bubble in Australian history and the modern battery-metal bust, the story of an industry built on boom and reckoning.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/j/t/nickel-mining-in-western-australia-wp/qejt-nickel-mining-in-western-australia-combined.mp3 5:22 full Lake Way https://qualla.com/lake-way/ Photo credit Calistemon, CC BY-SA 3.0. A vast ephemeral salt lake south of Wiluna - dry for years at a stretch, briefly a mirror after rare floods - whose calcrete margins hold both gold and a long-contested uranium deposit.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/j/x/lake-way-wp/qejx-lake-way-combined.mp3 4:26 full Wiluna uranium mine https://qualla.com/wiluna-uranium-mine/ The first uranium project ever fully approved in Western Australia - and more than a decade later, still a mine that exists only on paper, contested on Aboriginal country south of Wiluna.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/j/x/wiluna-uranium-mine-wp/qejx-wiluna-uranium-mine-combined.mp3 4:27 full Meekatharra, Western Australia https://qualla.com/meekatharra-western-australia/ Photo credit Calistemon, CC BY-SA 3.0. A Murchison gold-and-pastoral hub whose Yamatji name means 'place of little water' - a Royal Flying Doctor base and outback crossroads where the desert and the highway have always set the terms.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/k/2/meekatharra-western-australia-wp/qek2-meekatharra-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:14 full Karalundi Community https://qualla.com/karalundi-community/ An Aboriginal community and boarding college on the Great Northern Highway north of Meekatharra, born as a 1950s mission and reclaimed, decades later, by the families it once served.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/k/7/karalundi-community-wp/qek7-karalundi-community-combined.mp3 3:51 full Wiluna Railway Line https://qualla.com/wiluna-railway-line/ The branch line that ran the rails as far from Perth as they ever went - out to the desert town of Wiluna, where the Canning Stock Route ended and the cattle finally caught a train.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/k/b/wiluna-railway-line-wp/qekb-wiluna-railway-line-combined.mp3 3:38 full Peak Hill, Western Australia https://qualla.com/peak-hill-western-australia/ A Murchison gold town that boomed, emptied to a single resident, and then was dug up entirely - its old streets swallowed by four open-cut pits.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/k/q/peak-hill-western-australia-wp/qekq-peak-hill-western-australia-combined.mp3 3:44 full Murchison River https://qualla.com/murchison-river-western-australia/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Kalb2011 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC0. Western Australia's second-longest river spends most of the year as a dry sandy bed - until the cyclones come and it runs twenty kilometres wide, a river that is mostly memory and occasionally a flood.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/k/s/murchison-river-western-australia-wp/qeks-murchison-river-western-australia-combined.mp3 3:58 full Wiluna, Western Australia https://qualla.com/wiluna-western-australia/ Photo credit Gazjo at English Wikipedia, Public domain. At the edge of the Western Desert, a gold boomtown that swelled to 9,000 and nearly vanished - and the Martu country it sits on, to which the last desert nomads walked home to die among their people.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/m/2/wiluna-western-australia-wp/qem2-wiluna-western-australia-combined.mp3 5:21 full Millbillillie Meteorite https://qualla.com/millbillillie-meteorite/ Photo credit Jon Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0. A fireball trailing sparks crossed the outback sky in October 1960, and a piece of the asteroid Vesta came to rest on the red dirt of a Western Australian cattle run.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/m/9/millbillillie-meteorite-wp/qem9-millbillillie-meteorite-combined.mp3 3:44 full Gascoyne River https://qualla.com/gascoyne-river/ Photo credit Rhyshuw1 (talk)., CC BY-SA 3.0. Western Australia's longest river spends most of the year as a dry bed of white sand, while the water it carries runs hidden underground, an upside-down river that can turn lethal in a week of rain.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/m/p/gascoyne-river-wp/qemp-gascoyne-river-combined.mp3 3:39 full Shoemaker Impact Structure https://qualla.com/shoemaker-impact-structure/ Photo credit ISS Expedition 28 crew, Public domain. Australia's oldest known impact scar, a ringed bullseye of salt lakes in the Western Australian desert, carries the name of the geologist whose own ashes were later carried to the Moon.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/m/u/shoemaker-impact-structure-wp/qemu-shoemaker-impact-structure-combined.mp3 4:01 full Banjawarn Station https://qualla.com/banjawarn-station/ A vast, remote cattle run on the edge of the Great Victoria Desert became, for one strange year, the secret outback laboratory of a Japanese doomsday cult that would go on to gas the Tokyo subway.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/n/6/banjawarn-station-wp/qen6-banjawarn-station-combined.mp3 4:06 full Mulga Queen Community https://qualla.com/mulga-queen-community/ A small Aboriginal community in the northern Goldfields, on Wongatha country, where people gathered through generations of upheaval and now govern their own place far out in the mulga.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/n/g/mulga-queen-community-wp/qeng-mulga-queen-community-combined.mp3 3:51 full Cosmo Newbery https://qualla.com/cosmo-newbery/ A small Wongatha community on the edge of the Great Victoria Desert, Cosmo Newbery carries the name of a colonial chemist and the harder memory of a mission, yet it endures on its own terms as Yilka Country.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/p/2/cosmo-newbery-wp/qep2-cosmo-newbery-combined.mp3 3:39 full Matuwa Kurrara Kurrara National Park https://qualla.com/matuwa-kurrara-kurrara-national-park/ On Martu Country at the desert's edge, a former cattle station has become one of Australia's most ambitious rewilding projects, where animals declared locally extinct are being brought home behind a fence built to keep cats and foxes out.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/q/s/matuwa-kurrara-kurrara-national-park-wp/qeqs-matuwa-kurrara-kurrara-national-park-combined.mp3 3:38 full Lake Carnegie https://qualla.com/lake-carnegie-western-australia/ One of the largest lakes in Australia is, most years, no lake at all but a vast salt-crusted plain, named for an explorer whose desperate hunt for water carries a darker history than its blue satellite images suggest.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/r/5/lake-carnegie-western-australia-wp/qer5-lake-carnegie-western-australia-combined.mp3 3:48 full Gunbarrel Highway https://qualla.com/gunbarrel-highway/ Photo credit spelio from guess, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0. Australia's first road across the centre was bulldozed through a thousand kilometres of desert to serve atomic weapons tests, and the man who built it gave it a name that promised it would run as straight as a gunbarrel, a promise the country itself refused to keep.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/r/m/gunbarrel-highway-wk/qerm-gunbarrel-highway-combined.mp3 3:52 full Collier Range National Park https://qualla.com/collier-range-national-park/ At the head of the Gascoyne River, a rarely-visited national park of red ridges and mulga shelters tiny mammals that have vanished almost everywhere else, on Country now cared for again by its Jidi Jidi traditional owners.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/s/g/collier-range-national-park-wp/qesg-collier-range-national-park-combined.mp3 3:46 full Hope Downs Mine https://qualla.com/hope-downs-mine/ A mother's name on a vast Pilbara iron mine, where a prospector's improbable bet finally paid off three decades after he placed it.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/u/t/hope-downs-mine-wp/qeut-hope-downs-mine-combined.mp3 4:05 full Great Northern Highway https://qualla.com/great-northern-highway/ Photo credit Gnangarra at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Australia's longest highway runs 3,195 kilometres from Perth to Wyndham - a single ribbon of bitumen across desert, wheat, iron country and tropical floodplain.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/v/5/great-northern-highway-wk/qev5-great-northern-highway-combined.mp3 3:59 full Mount Whaleback Mine https://qualla.com/mount-whaleback-mine/ Photo credit Graeme Churchard from Bristol (51.4414, -2.5242), UK, CC BY 2.0. The world's largest single-pit open-cut iron ore mine - a whole mountain turned inside out, five kilometres long and reaching half a kilometre deep.

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Image: Graeme Churchard from Bristol (51.4414, -2.5242), UK | CC BY 2.0

]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/v/5/mount-whaleback-mine-wp/qev5-mount-whaleback-mine-combined.mp3 4:11 full Newman https://qualla.com/newman-western-australia/ Photo credit Paebi photographer: Michael Sigrist, CC BY-SA 3.0. A town built from scratch by a steel company beside the world's largest iron pit - named for a surveyor who died young, on land the Martu have known for 45,000 years.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/v/5/newman-western-australia-wp/qev5-newman-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:26 full Jigalong https://qualla.com/jigalong-community-western-australia/ A Martu community on the desert's edge, and the place three Aboriginal girls walked roughly 1,600 kilometres to come home to in 1931, following a fence across the heart of the continent.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/v/g/jigalong-community-western-australia-wp/qevg-jigalong-community-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:32 full Hickman Crater https://qualla.com/hickman-crater/ A geologist spotted this near-perfect meteorite scar on his computer screen in 2007, hiding in plain sight for 50,000 years in the iron country north of Newman.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/v/h/hickman-crater-wp/qevh-hickman-crater-combined.mp3 4:01 full Talawana Track https://qualla.com/talawana-track/ The last road Len Beadell ever cut, a 600-kilometre line scratched across the desert by one man in a Land Rover, ending eight years of survey work amid heat, dust, and flies.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/v/m/talawana-track-wp/qevm-talawana-track-combined.mp3 4:25 full Roy Hill Mine https://qualla.com/roy-hill-mine/ Australia's richest woman bet ten billion dollars and a private railway that her father's iron empire could be reborn in the red dirt of the Chichester Range.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/v/r/roy-hill-mine-wp/qevr-roy-hill-mine-combined.mp3 4:15 full Little Sandy Desert https://qualla.com/little-sandy-desert/ Photo credit Peter WH (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. In a desert that maps treat as blank, a single rock shelter holds evidence of human life stretching back beyond 47,000 years, among the oldest continuous occupation known on the continent.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/w/8/little-sandy-desert-wp/qew8-little-sandy-desert-combined.mp3 4:22 full Glikson Crater https://qualla.com/glikson-crater/ Photo credit NASA, Public domain. A 19-kilometre wound from deep time, ground almost flat by erosion and buried under dunes, betrayed only by a ghostly magnetic ring that no eye can see.

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Image: NASA | Public domain

]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/w/r/glikson-crater-wp/qewr-glikson-crater-combined.mp3 4:11 full Kumpupintil Lake https://qualla.com/kumpupintil-lake/ Photo credit Summerdrought, CC BY-SA 4.0. A vast salt lake in the Western Desert that the Martu have known and avoided for millennia, and that a thirsty explorer renamed for his own disappointment.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/z/6/kumpupintil-lake-wp/qez6-kumpupintil-lake-combined.mp3 4:21 full Parnngurr Community https://qualla.com/parnngurr-community/ A Martu community in the heart of the Western Desert, born when families walked back to their country and planted a windmill in the path of a uranium mine.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/e/z/n/parnngurr-community-wp/qezn-parnngurr-community-combined.mp3 4:11 full Israelite Bay https://qualla.com/israelite-bay/ At the lonely eastern edge of the Nullarbor coast, a ruined telegraph station crumbles where a Victorian biblical idea once met an ancient cultural boundary.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/0/0/israelite-bay-wp/qf00-israelite-bay-combined.mp3 4:18 full Balladonia, Western Australia https://qualla.com/balladonia-western-australia/ Photo credit Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 4.0. A lonely roadhouse on the Nullarbor that briefly became the place where America's falling space station came down, and then fined NASA for the mess.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/0/p/balladonia-western-australia-wp/qf0p-balladonia-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:26 full Point Culver https://qualla.com/point-culver/ A headland where a homesick English navigator saw the white cliffs of his own coast, marking the start of one of the longest cliff lines on Earth.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/0/s/point-culver-wp/qf0s-point-culver-combined.mp3 4:49 full Baxter Cliffs https://qualla.com/baxter-cliffs/ Photo credit Aussie Oc at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. A 190-kilometre rampart of limestone where the Nullarbor simply ends, named for a man who died on the great crossing and the loyal companion who survived it.

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Image: Aussie Oc at English Wikipedia | CC BY-SA 3.0

]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/0/v/baxter-cliffs-wp/qf0v-baxter-cliffs-combined.mp3 4:08 full Caiguna Airport https://qualla.com/caiguna-airport/ A modest airstrip on the Nullarbor scrub, where in country this empty a runway can be the difference between life and death.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/3/0/caiguna-airport-wp/qf30-caiguna-airport-combined.mp3 3:56 full Caiguna, Western Australia https://qualla.com/caiguna-western-australia/ Photo credit Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 4.0. A lone roadhouse at the end of Australia's longest straight road, where the Nullarbor's hidden caves breathe and the unofficial clocks run forty-five minutes ahead.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/3/0/caiguna-western-australia-wp/qf30-caiguna-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:35 full Readymix logo geoglyph https://qualla.com/readymix-logo-geoglyph/ Photo credit 300000kmps, CC BY-SA 4.0. A grader driver once carved a company logo two miles wide into the Nullarbor over a holiday weekend, and for nineteen years it held the world record for the largest letters on Earth.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/3/0/readymix-logo-geoglyph-wp/qf30-readymix-logo-geoglyph-combined.mp3 3:49 full Twilight Cove https://qualla.com/twilight-cove/ Where 190 kilometres of unbroken cliff finally relent into a beach, a remote shore named for a wrecked ship and haunted by waves that come without warning.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/3/8/twilight-cove-wp/qf38-twilight-cove-combined.mp3 3:53 full Cocklebiddy, Western Australia https://qualla.com/cocklebiddy-western-australia/ Photo credit Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 3.0. A lonely roadhouse on the Nullarbor that sits above one of the longest underwater cave passages on Earth.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/3/9/cocklebiddy-western-australia-wp/qf39-cocklebiddy-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:02 full Hampton Tableland https://qualla.com/hampton-tableland/ Photo credit Yewenyi at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The high limestone step of the Nullarbor, edged by an ancient sea cliff that the ocean abandoned millions of years ago.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/3/9/hampton-tableland-wp/qf39-hampton-tableland-combined.mp3 2:58 full Eyre Telegraph Station https://qualla.com/eyre-telegraph-station/ Photo credit Kitetoa, CC BY-SA 4.0. An 1897 limestone telegraph station, marooned in the dunes for fifty years, reborn as Australia's first bird observatory.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/3/b/eyre-telegraph-station-wp/qf3b-eyre-telegraph-station-combined.mp3 3:44 full Arubiddy Station https://qualla.com/arubiddy-station/ A Nullarbor sheep run the size of a small country, where the water comes from bores and the clocks run on a time all their own.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/3/e/arubiddy-station-wp/qf3e-arubiddy-station-combined.mp3 3:43 full Rawlinna Station https://qualla.com/rawlinna-station/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. 17177 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0. Australia's largest sheep station: more than two million acres of Nullarbor, fenced against dingoes and stitched together from three old leases.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/3/p/rawlinna-station-wp/qf3p-rawlinna-station-combined.mp3 4:01 full Rawlinna, Western Australia https://qualla.com/rawlinna-western-australia/ Photo credit Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0. A railway siding of 33 people on the Nullarbor Plain, where the longest dead-straight stretch of track on Earth runs past one of the loneliest holes in the world's longest golf course.

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Image: Dietmar Rabich | CC BY-SA 4.0

]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/3/p/rawlinna-western-australia-wp/qf3p-rawlinna-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:18 full Roe Plains https://qualla.com/roe-plains/ Photo credit Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 4.0. A low coastal plain along the Great Australian Bight that was once the floor of an ancient sea, left stranded beneath towering limestone cliffs when the ocean withdrew.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/6/1/roe-plains-wp/qf61-roe-plains-combined.mp3 4:04 full Madura Station https://qualla.com/madura-station/ Photo credit Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 3.0. A Nullarbor sheep run larger than Brunei that began in 1876 as a horse stud, breeding cavalry remounts on the edge of the desert to be shipped across the ocean to the British Army in India.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/6/6/madura-station-wp/qf66-madura-station-combined.mp3 4:01 full Madura, Western Australia https://qualla.com/madura-western-australia/ Photo credit Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 4.0. A lone roadhouse at the foot of Madura Pass, where the Eyre Highway tips off the Nullarbor and travellers reset their clocks to a time zone that exists almost nowhere else on Earth.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/6/6/madura-western-australia-wp/qf66-madura-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:07 full Mundrabilla, Western Australia https://qualla.com/mundrabilla-western-australia/ Photo credit Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 4.0. A roadhouse and pioneer sheep station on the Nullarbor where geologists stumbled on the largest meteorite ever found in Australia, a 12.4-tonne iron mass that fell from the sky a million years ago.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/6/f/mundrabilla-western-australia-wp/qf6f-mundrabilla-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:23 full Loongana railway station https://qualla.com/loongana-railway-station/ Photo credit W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0. A near-empty siding on the Nullarbor, Loongana marks one end of the longest dead-straight railway track on Earth.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/6/r/loongana-railway-station-wp/qf6r-loongana-railway-station-combined.mp3 3:25 full Old Homestead Cave https://qualla.com/old-homestead-cave/ Beneath a treeless plain, the longest cave in Australia spreads out as a 36-kilometre maze of dry, silent passages, born from a family's failed search for water.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/6/y/old-homestead-cave-wp/qf6y-old-homestead-cave-combined.mp3 3:28 full Abrakurrie Cave https://qualla.com/abrakurrie-cave/ Under the Nullarbor lies a chamber said to be the largest in the southern hemisphere, holding Aboriginal stencils that reach deeper into the dark than any cave art in Australia.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/7/7/abrakurrie-cave-wp/qf77-abrakurrie-cave-combined.mp3 3:34 full Eucla, Western Australia https://qualla.com/eucla-western-australia/ Photo credit JarrahTree, CC BY 2.5 au. Once a telegraph hub of a hundred people, Eucla now watches the desert slowly bury and unbury the ruins of the station that gave it life.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/7/e/eucla-western-australia-wp/qf7e-eucla-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:08 full Eucla https://qualla.com/eucla/ Photo credit JarrahTree, CC BY 2.5 au. Halfway across the Nullarbor, Eucla is the fuel stop where you reset your watch by 45 minutes, walk out to a buried telegraph station, and remember that the desert meets the sea.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/7/e/eucla-wk/qf7e-eucla-combined.mp3 4:27 full Wilson Bluff https://qualla.com/wilson-bluff-western-and-south-australian-border/ Where a dead-straight surveyor's line meets the Southern Ocean, the great limestone cliffs of the Nullarbor begin - and a 40-million-year-old seafloor stands on edge.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/7/e/wilson-bluff-western-and-south-australian-border-wp/qf7e-wilson-bluff-western-and-south-australian-border-combined.mp3 3:58 full Bunburra Rockhole Meteorite https://qualla.com/bunburra-rockhole-meteorite/ A stone that fell on the Nullarbor in 2007 became the first meteorite ever found by tracing its fireball through the sky - and the first whose orbit around the Sun could be wound backwards.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/7/v/bunburra-rockhole-meteorite-wp/qf7v-bunburra-rockhole-meteorite-combined.mp3 4:20 full Kinclaven Station https://qualla.com/kinclaven-station/ A cattle run the size of a small country, stitched together from older leases on the dry western rim of the Nullarbor, and named for a Scottish village half a world away.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/9/2/kinclaven-station-wp/qf92-kinclaven-station-combined.mp3 4:12 full Neale Junction https://qualla.com/neale-junction/ Photo credit Graham Winterflood, FAL. Two of the loneliest roads in Australia cross here, in the heart of the Great Victoria Desert - a crossroads named for a pilot, signed by a legendary roadbuilder, and reachable only by those willing to drive for days.

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Image: Graham Winterflood | FAL

]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/c/q/neale-junction-wp/qfcq-neale-junction-combined.mp3 4:07 full Forrest https://qualla.com/forrest-western-australia/ Photo credit Greg Barrington, CC BY-SA 3.0. A near-empty settlement on the world's longest straight railway, where a once-vital outback airfield and weather station now wait, mostly in silence, for planes that rarely come.

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Image: Greg Barrington | CC BY-SA 3.0

]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/d/c/forrest-western-australia-wp/qfdc-forrest-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:08 full Forrest Airport https://qualla.com/forrest-airport/ Photo credit Greg Barrington, CC BY-SA 3.0. Halfway across the Nullarbor, a 1929 airfield with a hangar and a handful of cottages keeps the lights on for anyone crossing the emptiest stretch of Australia.

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Image: Greg Barrington | CC BY-SA 3.0

]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/e/0/forrest-airport-wp/qfe0-forrest-airport-combined.mp3 4:10 full Reid, Western Australia https://qualla.com/reid-western-australia/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. A vanished railway settlement on the Nullarbor where a dozen families once kept the steam locomotives watered - named for a prime minister, erased by the diesel engine.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/e/2/reid-western-australia-wp/qfe2-reid-western-australia-combined.mp3 3:58 full Deakin, Western Australia https://qualla.com/deakin-western-australia/ At the last siding before the South Australian border, a copper plug set in a concrete obelisk decides exactly where one Australian state ends and the next begins.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/e/8/deakin-western-australia-wp/qfe8-deakin-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:07 full Ilkurlka Community, Western Australia https://qualla.com/ilkurlka-community-western-australia/ Photo credit Gazjo at English Wikipedia, Public domain. A tiny roadhouse at the heart of the Spinifex People's country - the place a desert people came home to, on land they won back by painting it.

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Image: Gazjo at English Wikipedia | Public domain

]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/f/w/ilkurlka-community-western-australia-wp/qffw-ilkurlka-community-western-australia-combined.mp3 4:20 full Great Victoria Desert https://qualla.com/great-victoria-desert/ Photo credit Marian Deschain, CC BY-SA 3.0. Australia's largest desert - a 348,000-square-kilometre sea of red dunes and spinifex that is at once ancient Aboriginal homeland, explorer's nightmare, and scarred nuclear ground.

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Image: Marian Deschain | CC BY-SA 3.0

]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/g/f/great-victoria-desert-wp/qfgf-great-victoria-desert-combined.mp3 5:38 full Serpentine Lakes https://qualla.com/serpentine-lakes/ Photo credit Marian Deschain, CC BY-SA 3.0. A winding chain of salt lakes traces an ancient river across the Great Victoria Desert, marking the border between two states in country returned to its traditional owners.

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Image: Marian Deschain | CC BY-SA 3.0

]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/g/u/serpentine-lakes-wp/qfgu-serpentine-lakes-combined.mp3 4:40 full Bunda Cliffs https://qualla.com/bunda-cliffs/ Where the treeless Nullarbor Plain reaches the sea, it simply ends, dropping in a sheer limestone wall that runs for hundreds of kilometres along the Great Australian Bight.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/k/d/bunda-cliffs-wp/qfkd-bunda-cliffs-combined.mp3 4:25 full Koonalda Cave https://qualla.com/koonalda-cave/ Deep beneath the Nullarbor, Aboriginal people mined flint and dragged their fingers through the soft limestone more than twenty thousand years ago, leaving markings their descendants still hold sacred.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/k/m/koonalda-cave-wp/qfkm-koonalda-cave-combined.mp3 4:54 full Great Australian Bight Marine Park https://qualla.com/great-australian-bight-marine-park/ Photo credit Holly Randell, CC BY-SA 4.0. A vast marine sanctuary off the Nullarbor coast, where southern right whales come to give birth, sea lions haul out on hidden ledges, and a nation once fought off the oil rigs.

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Image: Holly Randell | CC BY-SA 4.0

]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/m/6/great-australian-bight-marine-park-wk/qfm6-great-australian-bight-marine-park-combined.mp3 4:42 full Murrawijinie Cave https://qualla.com/murrawijinie-cave/ Photo credit Jennyiam1, CC BY-SA 3.0. On the treeless Nullarbor, a sinkhole opens into the earth where Aboriginal people once sheltered and pressed their ochre-red handprints onto the cool limestone walls.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/m/j/murrawijinie-cave-wp/qfmj-murrawijinie-cave-combined.mp3 4:15 full