Australian.Geographic_2014_01-02

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62 Australian Geographic which can include up to 100 or more animals at a time – appear to be merely feeding aggre- gations wit ...

January–February 2014 63 Practical research. To aid out-of-water breath- ing and reduce stress for the animal during medical exa ...

64 Australian Geographic Strait Islander languages have several names for dugongs at various stages of development. On Mabuiag I ...

Tangalooma Wrecks. Dugong herds in popular coastal areas such as Moreton Bay face multiple threats, including pollution from run ...

66 Australian Geographic James McCormack embarks on a personal crusade to better understand his father who, 50 years ago, comple ...

Up, up and away. Terr y McCormack (centre) clutches Archimedes (also above). The Aerostat Soci- ety’s fi rst balloon, it didn’t ...

68 Australian Geographic At the centre of their attention was 150sq.m of Mylar film. It was just one-fi ftieth of a millimetre t ...

January–February 2014 69 The A-team. Brian McGee (top, from left), Peter McGee, Terry McCormack, Zenon Kocuimbas, Stan Grincevic ...

70 Australian Geographic one clipping I found in the box, humour, because it all began with an idea for a stunt. In July 1962, a ...

January–February 2014 71 COURTESY CHERRY MCCORMACK ...

72 Australian Geographic To my father, these mishaps meant little. His optimism was, it seemed, irrepressible. “It was really fi ...

January–February 2014 73 Continued page 76 a zipper running the balloon’s length — in essence splitting it open — to allow rapid ...

TIMELINE: HOT-AIR BALLOONING DEVELOPMENTS 74 Australian Geographic 1783 The first manned hot-air balloon free flight. Piloted by ...

2005 Vijaypat Singhania set a new record, reaching more than 69,000ft (21,000m) on a flight from Mumbai, India, but missed a tar ...

76 Australian Geographic case with thermals. “We would just have to learn to avoid them.” When Dad and Tony departed, Michael an ...

January–February 2014 77 of creeks; and the contours of gentle hills ringing the valley. But I preferred those times we dipped l ...

Just us fi ve and the river. Dave Cauldwell savours the stillness as he lags behind the other paddlers on the Katherine River. ...

Paddling the tropics A kayak journey down the Katherine introduces a novice to the splendid beauty and bewitching isolation of o ...

80 Australian Geographic A S I SIP ON MY morning cof ee and pore over the day’s headlines, a menacing photograph grabs my eye. A ...