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The wild side of Richard Morecroft
Viewers of ABC TV will no doubt be familiar with Richard’s confident, urbane delivery of the nightly news over a period of twenty years. Those same viewers will also be aware of Richard’s very badly kept secret - his unabashed fondness for wildlife.
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Coral Reefs Under Global Threat
by Eric Matson
The world’s coral reefs are under increasing pressure from local and global-scale environmental impacts. Will we lose forever one of the planet’s greatest underwater attractions?
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In Search of Sir Hubert
Australia’s “other” polar hero still remains something of a mystery to his hero-worshipping countrymen.
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Two Ships and 129 Men Missing Without Trace
So screamed the mid-19th century headlines when the ambitious polar expedition, led by the aging Sir John Franklin, failed to return after yet another abortive attempt to find the elusive North West Passage across the top of Canada.
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Patagonia Drama
By Chris Ord
“It’s the end of the world and it’s the beginning,” Julio muses through a steaming cup of cocoa. “It’s drama realised in earth, ice and water.”
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Rankin Island Riddles
by Len Zell
When confronted with a 80cm high human built wall stretching for over 75m on top of a massive rock wall similar to that of a water reservoir that looks like it was built by bulldozers one’s mind jumps to all sorts of conclusions.
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Icebreakers - Pushing the Limits
Modern shipbuilding now allows us to travel to the most remote regions of the world’s frozen oceans.
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Spirit of the Sepik
by John Borthwick
From the shore it must look like a bad case of “Bwana Vistas”. Six of us are chugging down Papua New Guinea’s Sepik River in a dugout canoe — enthroned in wicker easy-chairs.
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The Decapitator
An image of pure terror emerges from the pre-Incan ruins of northern Peru. Was he real, or a stylised “boogie man”? Archaeologists are only now demystifying this horrific character – and their discoveries are unsettling.
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Let Sleeping Gods Lie
by Roderick Eime
... the emaciated, battle-weary villagers turned on their nonchalant idols, beheading them, toppling them and thrusting their uncaring faces into the mud.
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Aye Aye Captain
The newly discovered Microcebus lehilahytsara is the newest member of the expanding lemur family tree.
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Quo Vadis - Namibia
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