The Larapinta Trail runs 223km along the spine of the West MacDonnell Ranges, from Alice Springs to the summit of Mt Sonder. It was the brainchild of national park planner Alan Ginns, who worked on it from the early 1980s, with the final section completed around 2000. The trail crosses Arrernte land and several of its sacred sites, which the Arrernte have given permission for walkers to visit, with the climb to Brinkley Bluff on section four widely rated the best lookout on the track.

The Three Capes Track is a four-day, 48km walk on the Tasman Peninsula, taking in Cape Hauy and Cape Pillar, home to the highest sea cliffs in the Southern Hemisphere. The track is purpose-built, with architecturally designed huts and engineered stonework underfoot, a deliberate departure from the rougher backcountry tracks elsewhere in Tasmania, and starts near Port Arthur, the site of Australia’s most significant former convict settlement.

Stretching 963km from Kalamunda, on Perth’s edge, to Albany on the south coast, the Bibbulmun is named for the area’s earliest inhabitants and is often called Australia’s answer to the Appalachian Trail. It passes through karri and tingle forest found nowhere else on earth, with nine towns along the way breaking the walk into manageable sections and giving access to resupply points for those not walking the full eight weeks.