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...Mearns' team set sail in the Geosounder in early March to tackle a search zone of 1,800 square nautical miles between Carnarvon and Geraldton. After weathering technical problems and a cyclone, on March 12 it transmitted the startling news: the Kormoran had been found. Four days later, the Sydney was located. Graham's fellow Foundation director Glenys McDonald, who was on board, said: "I went up to the back deck and leaned over the railing and cried and gave thanks...
...winter you can wear a singlet all day," he says. Forty years ago, Mowatt traveled around the whole country with a mate in a Mini 850, finding work as a builder along the way; he doesn't miss the 4,000 km of bone-shaking gravel road from Carnarvon to Katherine that he once rattled over. "The route's all sealed now," he says. "The place is not as remote as it used...
...upset the Bidjara. "We got the s__ts, naturally,'' says traditional landowner Lionel Fraser, of Roma, in western Queensland. "Walshy wouldn't come near me after, because I told him I would punch him in the mouth.'' Walsh says he has hidden the bones in a cave in the Carnarvon Gorge region, about 600 km northwest of Brisbane, and will not reveal its location unless he is satisfied the remains will be properly cared...
...have largely replaced delivery planes and trucks. But haste and vast distances mean some copies still cost the company around $A25 each, says Mitchell. That's the price of being a national newspaper. "We don't just want to appeal to Balmain," he says. "We need to appeal to Carnarvon, too." When they open the paper tomorrow, the residents of neither place will sense the skilled flurry that produced it. Words are moving at high speed among the subs now. Stutchbury and Mitchell have left; barring any major changes, it's now the backbench's call. "Whack it through, mate...
Last week Lord Carnarvon announced that the treasures will go on public view at Highclere. Who squirreled them away? No one knows, but it seems that the sixth Earl Carnarvon, son of the man who entered Tut's tomb, was furious after he lost a lawsuit in 1924 against the Egyptian government for a half share of the crypt's riches. Miffed, the aristocrat forbade any mention of Egypt...