Word: strzelecki
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...make matters worse, bushfires fanned by the northwesterly winds raged through tinder dry inland regions. Near the Strzelecki Mountain range, about 62 miles (100km) southeast of Melbourne, arsonists were blamed for starting a fire that burned out more than 15,000 acres and cut a swathe through the tiny town of Boolarra. Boolarra resident Peter Stasinowsky, who stamped out embers with his feet and used a garden hose to save his home, described the blaze as "bloody huge."(Read "In Tongues of Flame...
Eight kinds of beer and freshly shucked oysters make the Innamincka Hotel an oasis for travelers on Australia's remote Strzelecki Track. But keeping food and drink cold in the Outback isn't cheap. Every three weeks a diesel tanker must make a 1,600-km round trip from Port Augusta, South Australia, to keep the generators running...
They were indeed mere minutes. It was about 11:30 p.m. when the biggest wave crested. Straight up into the air went the raft, and into the sea once more the men were flung. Mays got back first, then Strzelecki, and then Fleming. They called for Meredith, but they heard nothing, saw nothing...
...they redoubled their efforts to keep awake. Strzelecki grew weaker. Pleaded Fleming...
...waves began to subside, and the men lay face down. Fleming felt ice in his eyes, on his back, in his hair. The three exchanged nonsensical gibberish. Then Mays prayed. But Strzelecki slipped from the raft, clinging weakly to the side. The others, too spent to pull him aboard, held him for more than an hour. Strzelecki sobbed...