Isolated and completely surrounded by water, Australia is a land of contrasts. Parched desert and tropical rainforest, islands, reefs, and bushland...

It covers a third of the world's surface. It is constantly reshaped by the clash of Earth's tectonic plates. It creates life, that in turn becomes...

Wildest Antarctica journeys to our coldest continent and southern seas. Shaped by ice-shelves, glaciers, and snow-capped volcanoes, Antarctica is a...

The Pacific Ocean's mysterious deep sea terrain is as varied as the land mirrored above. From hulking sea mounts, island atolls, and lagoons, to a...

Of the Pacific's 25-thousand islands, roughly two-thirds are in the Coral Triangle. The Triangle is a small western Pacific pocket from Indonesia,...

The Great Barrier Reef, which runs parallel to the coastline of northeastern Australia, is so big it can be seen from space. A chain of 3,000...

The Pacific Ocean spans 9 and a half thousand miles of latitude across vastly varying temperatures and topography. With such far-reaching boundaries,...