Map copied from Microsoft Encarta Atlas with thanks

Victoria

The state (population 4.9 million) at the bottom of the Australian mainland, It is almost the same size (227,416 sq km) as the United Kingdom. Within it's borders are such things as a lot of the Australian skiable snow fields in the highest parts of  the Great Dividing Range (a mountain range that starts at the Grampians and almost divides the state in half length-wise), the Murray River, rain forests, a Little Desert, and coastline that includes the Great Ocean Road on one side of Melbourne and Wilsons Promontory and 90 mile beach on the other. As we live in this state, most of our local travels and adventures are here. More...

New South Wales

The 800,642 square kilometre state on the right hand side of Australia. Just under 2/3rds of its 6.7 million people population live in Sydney. (Just over 1/3rd of Australia's population live here.) The Great Dividing Range runs up the length of the state's east coast. Down south, it includes the highest point in Australia - Mount Kosciusko (2,229m) and the Snowy Mountains snow fields, and west of Sydney the range is known as the Blue Mountains. Shona used to live just south of Newcastle and commute into Sydney each day for work. We haven't travelled here too much as most of our trips further from home are to Queensland. Take this link for more information on our travels here - More...

Queensland

1,727,000 square kilometres and somewhere around 3.8 million people. The people born  in Queensland complain about all the southerners that migrate there either every winter, or permanently. Brisbane and the Gold Coast are the main commercial centres, and they are tucked into the south eastern corner of the state. Much of the state relies heavily on tourism for income. The Great Barrier Reef is a major draw card. A large amount of the farming in the state is related to tropical and sub-tropical crops. There are vast stretches of sugarcane and the bananas are grown around Mackay feed most of Australia. The Great Dividing Range runs up most of  the east coast of Queensland to just north of the Daintree rainforest. More...

South Australia

1,530,000 or so people living in an area of 984,377 square kilometres are some of the numbers that define South Australia. The state holds everything from Adelaide - the city of churches to Coober Pedy - a town where most of the inhabitants live underground, from the fertile and picturesque Adelaide Hills with wine growing areas like the Barossa Valley to one end of the treeless Nullarbor Plain. There's also a few thousand kilometres of one end of the world's longest fence, one end of the Great Australian Bight and its dramatic cliffs, and the mouth of Australia's biggest river - the Murray.  More...

Tasmania

The island state of Australia that is frequently forgotten. There's just over 64,103 square kilometres of land and another 4,000 square kilometres of other nearby islands and somewhere around 480,000 people that live there. We jumped on a Spirit of Tasmania ferry with our car and went there for a weekend to see a tiny little bit of it. More...

Western Australia

No photos to display as yet as we have not travelled here together. Shona spent a lot of her life here and travelled up and down the coast a bit, so there may be some photos appear at some point in the Shona pages. In the meantime, we highly recommend the Western Australia tourism site as well as their film snippets & postcards area. There's over 2.5 million square kilometres to explore and around 1.6 million people to meet! More...

Northern Territory

Like their advertising slogan states "You'll never never know if you never never go". It's a bit of a play on the whole state being out the back of the never never. So far neither Shona nor I have ever ever been - but we will one day! There's almost 200,000 people that live in the 1,346,000 square kilometres. Their tourism site makes it all look very enticing. There's also one other thing that entices me to head up to the Northern Territory with my car - the open road has an open speed limit. I'd really like to wing my car up and see how it goes closer to its top speed legally! More...

Outside of Australia

Singapore - 683 square kilometres of islands with 4.4 million people living on them. By comparison, the metropolitan area of Melbourne is about 8,800 square kilometres and has 3.4 million people living in that area. In our 6 days at Singapore, I was very impressed with how clean the city is and I only saw 1 piece of graffiti and 1 beggar. There was also extensive works underway to improve their public transport system. More...