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COLOURFUL markets entice the visitor to theCook Islands to part with a few spare dollars. David Ellis In the beginning, so legend tells us, there was Avaiki, the idyllic heaven from whence the first adventurers set forth to inhabit the islands that were to become the South Pacific. And, say those same legends, in the […]
Sir George Hubert Wilkins
by John Grierson from ‘HEROES OF THE POLAR SKIES’‘ Heinemann 1967 George Hubert Wilkins was in many ways the most colourful of all polar air pioneers, due to the astonishing variety of enterprises in which he took a leading part. Born at Mount Bryan East, about a hundred miles north of Adelaide on October 31st, […]
END IS NIGH FOR THE FUTURE…
END IS NIGH FOR THE FUTURE… david ellis MORE people have hopped aboard it in fourteen years than three timesAustralia’s population, and while they’ve thought they’ve flown overtowns, plunged into icy caverns, found themselves in dormantvolcanoes, zoomed through ancient valleys and dropped over terrifyingcliffs, in all that time each has in fact travelled no more […]
END IS NIGH FOR BACK TO THE FUTURE…
END IS NIGH FOR THE FUTURE…david ellis MORE people have hopped aboard it in fourteen years than three timesAustralia’s population, and while they’ve thought they’ve flown overtowns, plunged into icy caverns, found themselves in dormantvolcanoes, zoomed through ancient valleys and dropped over terrifyingcliffs, in all that time each has in fact travelled no more than […]
GRAND HOTEL REWARDS A ROCKY RIDE
GRAND HOTEL REWARDS A ROCKY RIDE david ellis THE American railway magnate Louis Hill had a quick eye for a dollar,and in the early 1900s he reasoned that there were some very quickdollars to be had from those discovering the joys of the newly-foundedWaterton Lakes National Park in Alberta in the Canadian Rockies. So to […]
GRAND HOTEL REWARDS A ROCKY RIDE
GRAND HOTEL REWARDS A ROCKY RIDE david ellis THE American railway magnate Louis Hill had a quick eye for a dollar,and in the early 1900s he reasoned that there were some very quickdollars to be had from those discovering the joys of the newly-foundedWaterton Lakes National Park in Alberta in the Canadian Rockies. So to […]
SHEARER’S GOLD FIND PANS OUT WELL
SHEARER’S GOLD FIND PANS OUT WELL david ellis WHEN a couple of shearers named Thomas Arthur and Harry Redfern gotwhisper of traces of gold being found outside Queenstown in NewZealand’s Southern Alps in 1862, they helped themselves to a fryingpan in their boss’s kitchen, deserted his sheep station and took offto the site of the […]
SHEARER’S GOLD FIND PANS OUT WELL
SHEARER’S GOLD FIND PANS OUT WELL david ellis WHEN a couple of shearers named Thomas Arthur and Harry Redfern gotwhisper of traces of gold being found outside Queenstown in NewZealand’s Southern Alps in 1862, they helped themselves to a fryingpan in their boss’s kitchen, deserted his sheep station and took offto the site of the […]
NO MYSTERY ABOUT ISLAND’S SPIRIT
NO MYSTERY ABOUT ISLAND’S SPIRIT david ellis IT’S got no electricity, no running water, no road, no telephones andnobody even lives there, yet those who find themselves on this remoteSouth Pacific outpost have just voted it their “favourite port ofcall.” But ask them when they return home from a cruising sojourn just whereon the map […]
NO MYSTERY ABOUT ISLAND’S SPIRIT
NO MYSTERY ABOUT ISLAND’S SPIRIT david ellis IT’S got no electricity, no running water, no road, no telephones andnobody even lives there, yet those who find themselves on this remoteSouth Pacific outpost have just voted it their “favourite port ofcall.” But ask them when they return home from a cruising sojourn just whereon the map […]
