Mount Everest sherpa Tenzing Norgay touched hearts, changed lives on 1960s Tassie trip
In 1953 Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary become the first two people to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Just under 10 years later, Norgay made his mark in another place of wild beauty — ...
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Giant huntsman eats pygmy possum at Tasmania's Mount Field National Park
The couple was at Mount Field National Park in the southern state when they stumbled upon the spider eating its fluffy feast. "Possum-eating spider!" she wrote. The unlucky possum is believed to be a ...
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Retired Parks ranger says Tas parks must be protected from northern hemisphere mass-tourism
The Overland Track is an Australian bushwalking track, traversing Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park ... Tasmania’s most popular destinations, including Cradle Mountain, Bruny Island ...
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Snow gum (Eucalyptus coccifera), Mount Field east, Mount Field National Park, Tasmania, 1976, 2 [transparency] / Peter Dombrovskis
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If students performed like VCE exam organisers have, they’d fail
Readers discuss the VCE examination debacle, the Myer Christmas windows launch cancellation, Kevin Rudd’s ambassadorial ...
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How a Team of Gophers Restored Mount St. Helens After Its Catastrophic Eruption With Less Than a Day of Digging
After the volcanic eruption of 1980, scientists released the burrowing rodents for only a brief time, but their activities ...
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Earth from space: Eerily circular 'Goblin Forest' surrounds sacred volcano with human rights
This 2023 satellite photo shows New Zealand's Mount Taranaki, which is surrounded by a near-perfect circle of deformed trees. The volcano was recently granted the same legal rights as a person.