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Before European colonisation, the Mount Nelson area was part of the traditional country of Tasmanian Aboriginal people. During his 1811 visit to Van Diemen’s Land, Governor of New South Wales Lachlan Macquarie named Mount Nelson and ordered a signal station to…
Irish Times London Correspondent, Mark Paul, looks at Andy Burnham's Labour Conference speech and his parties shifting policy around Brexit. Video: Mark Paul Great Blasket Island caretakers Aisling Costello and Conor Jones say it has been a “a magical experience…
TWO weeks in Fiji in October 1838 left behind a remarkable visual record of a country on the threshold of profound political and social change. Nearly two centuries later, the sketches of French artist Ernest Goupil have become a window into…
More than 10,000 Italian Antarctic expeditioners have passed through Christchurch over four decades, forging a relationship that Italy’s Antarctic programme now describes as far more than logistical convenience. For Italian scientist Gianluca Bianchi Fasani, Christchurch has become part of the reason…
From Bald Knob to Nervous Knob, these Kiwi hill names are hard to say seriously. A harmless hill-name fact turned into peak Breakfast Club silliness when Bondy revealed New Zealand has more knobs per person than anywhere else. Yep, it…