The 2,800-square-mile (7,200-square-kilometer) Kangaroo Island is Australia's third largest island. Without the mainland's many ecological and environmental problems, Kangaroo Island looks a lot like mainland Australia once did. The 4,500 inhabitants face the dilemma of keeping their island a secret or succumbing to the promise of the tourism industry.
(Text adapted from Wild Shores of Australia, 1996, National
Geographic Books)
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, Wild Shores of Australia, 1996, National Geographic Books)
