Where's the best beach in Australia? Ask the man who's visited all 12,500 of them

Dr Short at Point Culver on the Baxter Cliffs in WA in 2022 as part of an ongoing five year project investigating the clifftops dunes that occur around the Great Australian Bight. Picture supplied.

Professor Andrew Short has visited every beach in Australia.

Before anyone could zoom in on the coastline from the comfort of their armchair using Google Earth satellites, Dr Short was flying around Australia's 35,000 kilometres of coastline in a small three-person plane, leaning out the window and shooting photos of the beaches and coastline on his film camera.