In pictures: Australian Geographic’s photo prize winners

Terry Paul

Stunning images of nature and wildlife across Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and some Pacific islands are recognised each year in the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition. Here are some of this year’s winners.

Aerial image of a dead fin whale surrounded by circling sharks in aquamarine waters off Western Australia Image copyright MAT BEETSON
Image caption This image of sharks circling a beached whale in Western Australia was the overall winner, with judges saying it revealed “incredible beauty in death”
Image copyright FLLOYD MALLON
Image caption The junior prize was won by 17-year-old Flloyd Mallon, for this shot of a lightning storm in New South Wales
Image copyright PETE MCGEE
Image caption A crested horn shark feeds on the egg case of a Port Jackson shark in Sydney
Image copyright ROSS GUDGEON
Image caption Decorator crabs in Indonesia attach stinging hydroids – aquatic invertebrates – to themselves to ward off predators
Image copyright CHARLES DAVIS
Image caption Eastern grey kangaroos in Kosciuszko National Park, New South Wales
Image copyright NEIL PRITCHARD
Image caption Water cascades through the Barron Falls in Queensland during flood season
Image copyright ETIENNE LITTLEFAIR
Image caption A Mertens’ water monitor approaches photographer Etienne Littlefair’s camera in the Northern Territory
Image copyright CHARLES DAVIS
Image caption A mother and baby wombat make their way to a neighbouring wombat’s hole in New South Wales
Image copyright SCOTT PORTELLI
Image caption Male humpback whales swim past dolphins while looking for a female mate, in waters off Tonga
Image copyright MELISSA WILLIAMS-BROWN
Image caption A dry creek in Menindee Lakes, a drought-stricken part of Australia, where animal deaths have caused alarm

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