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Otago

Shipping has played an important part in Tasmanian history but it's rare to find shipping and literature in a rusting

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Return — hut on a point

IT’S BEEN DECADES, I thought as the driver throttled back the engines to approach the jetty. Decades… and there was

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All that remains… ruins on a Tasmanian mountainside

ALL THAT REMAINS is a bit of stone work where the house once was. And a few pieces of iron

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Three huts on a trail

Walk to places you haven't been for decades and you walk into memory. This was my experience on the Lenah

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Lost in the highlands

It was in 1978, after a late night start and very little sleep, that a search party set out on

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Figure in a landscape—walking the Tasmanian high country

Solitude and reverence for the mountains experienced on a solo walk along the Overland Track in the Spring of 1980

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To the summit, one last time

It was a grand weekend adventure to climb Mt Anne but, unknown to the climbers, it was to be their

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Home from the mountains— a stopover in Ouse

I remember her then. Checked wool shirt of the kind favored by bushwalkers and outdoor types. Warm wool trousers, dull

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Great conference, good people… but this is Tasmania after all

A speaking engagement at a conference leads to an edible tour of the island state, the gem of the Southern

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Going to Launceston? Just don’t breathe too deep

CAUGHT BETWEEN rapacious extractive industry on one hand and the sublime beauty of nature on the other, Tasmania remains a

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