THE AUSTRALIAN
BOOK OF RECORDS

At the age of 73 years, 6 months and 5 days, John Magowan of Perth WA successfully donated a bone marrow transplant (by stem cell do...

On the 20th April 2015, Pepe King performed the 8 digit by 8 digit mental multiplications in the shortest amount of time on the memoriad sim...

In an Australian first, 12 Australians have participated in an anonymous live kidney donation and transplantation exchange - the largest gro...

In a world first, acoustic technology was used to successfully find, track and study the Antarctic blue whale.

Blue whales are very r...

Monday, January 7, 2013 was the hottest day in Australian history, averaged over the entire country, confirmed by the Australian Bureau of M...

A new record was set for the number of consecutive days the national average temperature exceeded 39°C - seven days between January 2 and 8...

The Bureau of Meteorology confirm January 2013 to be the hottest month on record since records began.

They also stated that the week ...