The Abrolhos Islands 03

The Abrolhos Islands 03Abstract aerial views on a remote coral island chain in Australia The Abrolhos Island group is an archipelago of 122 islands stretching across 100 km of the Indian Ocean and approximately 60 km off the coastline. About 10,000 years ago the islands were part of the Australian mainland until they were separated by rising sea waters. None of the islands rises more than a few meters above sea level. The islands are home to sea lions, dolphins and

Aerial documentation of the Montgomery Reef in Australia

When the flow of the rivers subsides

Underwater sand ripples are patterns or formations created on the sea ground by the movement of water currents

is the world’s largest unbroken system of intertidal sand

These structures often appear at the edges of (abandoned) salt mining ponds

the sand dunes that once covered this area were compressed and solidified into the sandstone we see today

often unpaved or only rarely used roads and tracks in some of the most remote places in the world

The sinkholes are connected by channels to a system of permanent mudflats

meander through their environment

swirling lines

when the sun is at its lowest

These effects are most pronounced where the tidal range is very high