Tasmanian Gallery

Wineglass Bay from Mount Amos

Wineglass Bay from Mount Amos, one of the peaks of the Hazards, with Mount Freycinet, the peak furthest to the right on the Peninsula, and Great Oyster Bay on far right of the image. Freycinet National Park, Freycinet Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia

Australian, Coast, Crescent, Curve, Curved, Half Circle, High Angle View, Iconic, Landscape, Mount Amos Track, Mountains, Panorama, Panoramic, Scenery, Scenic, Semi Circular, Tasmanian, Vista, White Sand

Celery-top pine (Phyllocladus aspleniifolius)

Celery-top pine (Phyllocladus aspleniifolius), has minute leaves, under a millimetre long; what appear to be leaves are modified stems, phylloclades. Mount Field National Park, Tasmania, Australia

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Backlit, Coniferous, Conifers, Endemic To Australia, Evergreen, Flora, Native, Phyllocladus, Phyllocladus Asplenifolius, Pinales, Pinopsida, Plant, Podocarpaceae, Tall, Tasmanian, Timber Vegetation, Tree, Trunk

Seadragon and striped cowfish

Common seadragon or weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus and striped cowfish, Aracana aurita. (Superb dragon, Phyllopteryx foliatus, and ostracian, Aracana avrita.) Chromolithograph after an illustration by Louisa Anne Meredith from her book Tasmanian Friends and Foes, Feathered, Furred and Finned, Marcus Ward, London, 1881

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