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Old botanical surveys help researchers track how plants on Australia's islands are changing

Phys Dot Org 23 Mar 2025
Australia's islands punch above their weight ... These islands' climates are almost as diverse, spanning coral atolls in tropical north Queensland to the cold and windswept rocky isles off the southern tip of Tasmania ... Islands can be climate refuges.
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The Blobfish: Ugliest animal voted New Zealand's 'fish of the year'

The News International 21 Mar 2025
The blobfish pictured in this undated photograph. — Australian Museum/File ... It lives in the deep sea mainly off the southeastern coast of mainland Australia, the Australian island of Tasmania and New Zealand ... .
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Extraordinary tunnel-like home runs off-the-grid in brutalist style

New Atlas 21 Mar 2025
The Vipp Tunnel is a remarkable new building that takes the form of a chunky concrete tunnel ... Bringing to mind the somewhat similar Culvert Guesthouse, the Vipp Tunnel was designed by Australian studio Room11 and is located in Tasmania's Bruny Island.
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Australia's population up by 1.8 pct: statistics

China.dot.org 20 Mar 2025
Victoria followed with a 2.1-percent rise, while Queensland's population grew by 2 percent, Cho said, adding the island state of Tasmania saw the least growth over the 12-month period, with a 0.3-percent rise in population. Enditem .
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Inside the $450MILLION cruise ship - this is what it's like to travel on the ...

The Daily Mail 20 Mar 2025
We’re following in the footsteps of some of the world’s greatest explorers, including Captain Cook, voyaging to Tasmania as well as many stops on the eastern coast of New Zealand, visiting the country’s south and north islands.
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Ferocious, cheeky or ‘nightmare fuel’? Meet Rum’un, Tasmania’s new AFL mascot

Yahoo Daily News 19 Mar 2025
Rum’un was developed in partnership with the Tasmania-based Terrapin Puppet Theatre and input from schoolchildren across the island ... In coming weeks, Rum’un will embark on a tour across Tasmania, ...
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Travel: Why the best way to see New Zealand is on a cruise ship

LA Daily News 19 Mar 2025
On eastbound sails, after spending quality time in Sydney, Melbourne and lesser-visited Hobart in Australia’s island state of Tasmania, passengers get their first glimpse of New Zealand in Milford ...
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Footy fans claim 'they won't be sleeping tonight' as future AFL side Tasmania unveil their ...

The Daily Mail 18 Mar 2025
Exactly a year ago the AFL announced that it's newest expansion side would be called the Tasmania Devils ... The AFL reports that the mascot will be paraded around the island in the coming weeks to meet and greet communities across Tasmania.
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Rain threatens to disrupt F1’s Australian Grand Prix opener as Melbourne braces for chaotic weather

The Times of India 13 Mar 2025
... session, potentially adding an element of suspense.Sunday’s weather outlook paints a contrasting picture, with a major storm system expected to move in from Tasmania and New Zealand’s southern island.
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Jurassic-era trees have grown in Tasmania for millions of years. Now they face their biggest threat: fire

The Observer 09 Mar 2025
Steve Leonard finds it hard when he goes bushwalking in Tasmania’s high country these days ... Only found in Tasmania, pencil pine dates back to the late Jurassic, 140 million years ago ... But Tasmania is an island in the southern ocean.
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My husband dropped dead in the street. We don't believe in an afterlife but the ...

The Daily Mail 08 Mar 2025
So in February 2023, she traveled to the beautiful but remote island of Flinders, off the north-east coast of Tasmania, ‘to do the unfinished work of grieving’ and ‘to remember my love and to feel the immensity of his loss.’.
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