Meraiah Foley
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/ 23 March 2006

The house that defied Cyclone Larry

Ivana Edwards’s friends and neighbours laughed when she and her husband built their steel-reinforced concrete house 20 years ago to withstand any weather that tropical northern Australia could throw at them. But as category-five Cyclone Larry arrived, she knew they had been right.

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/ 30 September 2004

Map mistake led Bounty mutineers to settle on Pitcairn

When mutineers from HMS Bounty were looking for a place to hide in the Pacific in the late 1700s, their leader, Fletcher Christian, exploited some sloppy map making to set up home on an island they knew was in the wrong place on British Admiralty charts. It was an inspired choice that led to the establishment of one of the world’s most isolated communities.