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...nearly 200 years, the priceless rain forests along the Whitsunday Coast in Queensland, Australia, were ransacked?their precious trees stripped out, to grace the boardrooms of Brisbane's ?lites. Now, at long last, a chance to redeem some of that past is at hand, with the Whitsunday Great Walk...
...Opened in August, the 30-km trail is one of a series of six planned to celebrate Queensland's natural heritage. The 120-km Fraser Island Great Walk had been inaugurated in June, and the 110-km Wet Tropics Walk in Far North region is scheduled to open next June. The remaining three walks?taking in the Mackay Highlands, the Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast hinterlands?are expected to open around...
...first morning in the field and Creaser, a geologist, kneels in the red dirt of Queensland's Gulf country, 200 km northwest of Mount Isa. His right hand clutches a crack hammer, which is poised over a piece of rock the size of two bricks. What's inside the rock will make Creaser's day and remind the rest of the party that, for all the wonders this place has yielded, it has much more to give. "Work at Riversleigh," says team leader Mike Archer, "will go on forever...
...trees and termite mounds. Apart from local Aborigines and the odd ranger, Archer's teams are the only people who set foot on this land. So how do they know their way around? Here, rogainer Creaser more than earns his keep. "This guy," says Frank Nissen, a surveyor with Queensland Parks and Wildlife, "has the best spatial brain of anyone I've ever met. More than 250 sites and he can lead you to every one of them." Digging will be confined this year to Riversleigh's fringes, for money's tight and the team lacks a helicopter, essential...
...killer picture, the exclusive interview - absorbs the national daily as it does every other major media outlet. Which is why Whittaker's on the phone telling a journalist, "failure's not an option. We have to get this picture any which way." The reporter's in Far North Queensland, sent to cover the story of three children who survived a boat capsizing in the Torres Strait by swimming 3 km to an island through dangerous waters. Whittaker's only half-joking when he reminds the reporter how crucial a photo of the island...