Australia’s most Instagrammed beaches revealed

More Australians are tagging their every move on Instagram — and now the social media platform has revealed the top five geotagged beaches across the country.

More Australians are tagging their every move on Instagram — and now the social media platform has revealed the top five geotagged beaches across the country.

According to Instagram’s Year in Review report, Sydney’s world famous Bondi Beach took out the top spot for the most geotagged beach, followed by Byron Bay (Main Beach) and Manly Beach in NSW.

Fourth spot went to Surfer’s Paradise Beach on the Gold Coast, followed by Melbourne’s famous St Kilda Beach.

The data also showed that Bondi Beach was the top geotagged location in NSW.

In Victoria, the National Gallery of Victoria was most popular spot for Instagrammers to take their photos and videos, while South Bank was Queensland’s top location.

Glenelg Beach took out South Australia’s most geotagged place, Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park was the most popular spot in the Northern Territory, and the National Gallery of Australia was the top spot for Instagram posts in the ACT.

In Western Australia, Rottnest Island was the most popular location, and Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) was also a top choice.

As for the top five geotagged Australian landmarks, NSW dominated the list with Bondi Beach, the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour and Darling Harbour taking out the top four spots followed by the National Gallery of Victoria.

Overall, the top five most-used Instagram hashtags across Australia were #love, #melbourne, #australia, #sydney and #instagood.

Currently there are nine million active monthly Australian users on Instagram, which equates to more than 40 per cent of the population, which has increased from seven million just two years ago.

According to the 2018 Yellow Social Media Report from Sensis, 59 per cent of people access social media every day and they check it more than five times a day.

Australia’s biggest Hollywood exports have taken out the nation’s top five Instagram accounts with Thor, aka Chris Hemsworth, leading the way with the most popular account.

Hemsworth also took out the top place for Australia’s most-loved post with a photo of himself with his wife Elsa Pataky and his birthday cake.

The post, which had more than 3.5 million likes, stated: “Immediately after this shot was taken my son viciously attacked me from behind (due to his ninja training) and slammed my face into the flaming candles, I’ll now be playing Deadpool if @vancityreynolds pulls the pin #bestbirthdayever @elsapatakyconfidential.”

Hugh Jackman came in second with Margot Robbie third, Ruby Rose fourth and Miranda Kerr in fifth place.

Hugh Jackman loves taking photos at Bondi Beach, where his Sydney home lies. Picture: Hugh Jackman/Instagram

One of Margot Robbie’s top performing posts was a sneak peek photo she posted of her new look for Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming movie about Charles Manson where she will be taking on the role of Sharon Tate.

Globally, the number of times a heart was used in comments topped 14 billion. The most used face filter in Instagram Stories was Heart Eyes.

The happiest geotagged location in the world was Disneyland in Tokyo, and the highest growth hashtag community was #fortnite

The year’s top advocacy hashtags were #metoo (1.5 million), #timesup (597K) and #marchforourlives (562,000).

Facebook and Instagram Group Industry Director Naomi Shepherd said love was in the air on Instagram this year.

“In Australia, #love was our most-used hashtag, reaffirming Instagram as a place to express yourself and get closer to the people and things you care about. Other top performers on a local level include Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach, which ranked as the top tagged location in the country and Chris Hemsworth who has been named as the most-loved Aussie on Instagram this year,” she said.