Photo location game · Oceania
Australia landmarks quiz: guess where 16 photos were taken
16 places in Australia, each with a photo, a short fact and its spot on the map. Play five of them here, then look through the rest below.
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Five photos from Australia. Tap the map where you think each one was taken.
Tap the map where you think this is
Where they are
14 on the mapAll 16 places
The sail-shaped shells on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour.
Photo: Diliff / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A vast red sandstone monolith in the heart of the outback.
Photo: Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The steel arch nicknamed the "Coathanger" over the harbour.
Photo: JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Limestone sea stacks rising off a wild southern coast.
Photo: Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Remote sub-Antarctic islands with Australia's only active volcano.
Photo: Tristannew (original) Derivative: SHB2000 (cropped) / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A vast wild region of temperate rainforest, glacial lakes and dolerite peaks.
Photo: Mngeorgieva / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Australia's surf city, a 57-km strip of beaches lined with high-rises.
Photo: E-CBD / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The tallest volcanic sea stack in the world, a 562-metre blade of rock in the Pacific.
Photo: PotMart186 / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 260-km fringing reef where whale sharks gather every autumn.
Photo: W. Bulach / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Australia's planned capital, laid out around an artificial lake in 1913.
Photo: Tim J Keegan from Lake Macquarie, Australia / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Australia's cultural capital on the Yarra, famous for laneways, coffee and sport.
Photo: Shkuru Afshar / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The most isolated major city on Earth, on the Swan River in Western Australia.
Photo: Samuel Wiki / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A sub-Antarctic island where the ocean floor was pushed above sea level.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
A bubble-gum pink lake on an island off Western Australia.
Photo: Aussie Oc / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Australia's second oldest city, a coal port with surf beaches.
Photo: Doug Beckers from Avoca Beach, Australia / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Bungle Bungle Range, beehive-shaped domes striped orange and black.
Photo: W. Bulach / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
It is 4,600 km from Ningaloo Reef, the westernmost place on the map, to Ball's Pyramid, the easternmost. In the east, Sydney Harbour Bridge and Newcastle are both within 120 km of Sydney Opera House. Heard Island and McDonald Islands and Macquarie Island are off the map below and do not come up in the round.
Half the photos here are rated easy, including Sydney Opera House and Uluru. Gold Coast, Ningaloo Reef and Newcastle are rated hard. Heard Island and McDonald Islands has the largest scoring circle, 150 km, so a pin anywhere in the right area gets the full 5,000. Ball's Pyramid is the tallest volcanic sea stack in the world, a 562-metre blade of rock in the Pacific.
The daily in the app mixes photos from all 167 countries in the game, five a day, the same five for everyone.
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How many places in Australia are in the game?
16, from Purnululu National Park in the north to Macquarie Island in the south. A round on this page plays five of them. The map does not reach Heard Island and McDonald Islands and Macquarie Island.
What is the hardest photo from Australia?
Gold Coast, Ningaloo Reef and Newcastle are rated hard. Every 693 km of miss cuts the score in half.
Which photo is the easiest to score full points on?
Heard Island and McDonald Islands, with a 150 km radius. A pin anywhere inside it scores the full 5,000.