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...Alaska and Spain were favorite places to get away from it all. Nowadays those who really want to drop out head for Tobago, Sardinia and Pago Pago. One potential hideaway that until now has been completely ignored, however, is De Witt Isle, five miles off the southern coast of Tasmania* in the savage, blustery "Roaring Forties." Its assets are 4,000 acres of jagged rocks, tangled undergrowth and trees twisted and bent by the battering winds. Local fishermen call it the "Big Witch," and settlers have avoided it like the plague, but bandicoots (ratlike marsupials native to Australia), wallabies, eagles...
Tucked away near the bottom of the world, the island of Tasmania is an Australian state more or less renowned as the home of Errol Flynn and the Tasmanian wolf. Beyond that, it serves mainland Australia 150 miles to the north as a market garden, raising crisp fruits and vegetables on its tidy farms and in its verdant apple orchards. Inland from the quaint, Georgian-styled capital of Hobart (pop. 116,000) the island is windy and rugged, forested with towering oaks and giant eucalyptus trees, which rank among the world's tallest hardwoods. Last week those forests brought...
Elizabeth Town, Tasmania...
...native of Australia, Smithies, who is now 57, was born in Hobari, Tasmania, and received an LL.B. from the University of Tasmania. He continued his education as a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalon college, Oxford. Two years later, in 1934, he received a Ph.D. from Harvard as a Commonwealth Fund Fellow...
...stake was the overlordship of Melbourne's bustling, 16-acre Victoria Market, beneath whose iron-roofed sheds are crowded the stalls of 800 produce growers and 200 agents. Work in the market starts at 2 a.m. as trucks roll in with produce from Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland, and the stalls fill with a babble of Mediterranean tongues-Italian, Greek, Yugoslav-as well as Australian-twanged English. Trading is almost entirely in cash, and an estimated $45 million worth of fruits and vegetables pass through Victoria Market every year...