Maritime authorities have been ordered to investigate reports that the boats sank in stormy seas as they tried to sail from Indonesia to the remote Australian territory of Ashmore Reef ...

The boat carrying 47 passengers was just off Ashmore Reef and the Northern Territory Coroner has said it was a miracle that the death toll was not higher. Evidence about the mass rescue has ...

Michael Rudd served in Afghanistan for nine months, as well as treating patients following the Bali bombings and Ashmore Reef disaster. "I've seen a lot of this," he said. Staff at the Intensive ...

PHI International was sent to help a crew member rescued from a boat that capsized just off the Ashmore Reef Three men were rescued from the debris of the capsized boat by a bulk carrier ...

The return of apex predators such as sharks can restore critical ecological balance to coral reefs, creating healthier ecosystems. New research found a rise in the shark population on Ashmore Reef ...

Three men have survived and nine men are missing and feared dead after their vessel sank near Ashmore Reef during an incident at sea. The nine are believed to have drowned and their bodies “lost ...

Last week, scientists conducting research on Western Australia's Ashmore Reef became the first humans to lay eyes on a short-nosed sea snake at the site in more than two decades. Olive-colored and ...

The discovery was made 1700 kilometres south of the snakes only known habitat on Ashmore Reef. "We had thought that this species of sea snake was only found on tropical coral reefs. Finding them ...

Ashmore Reef and Cartier ­Island were handed over to Australia by Britain in 1934 and incorporated into Western Australia. But the resource-rich chain of islands and shoals has been a source of ...