Barrier Reef—One Of
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World's Wonders
ONE of the wonders of the world, the Great Barrier Reef, which extends for 1,200 miles along the north-east coast of Australia —situated like a protec tive rampart at an average distance of 40 miles from the shore-line —was described to the members of the Pacific Islands Society in Sydney in February, in a fas cinating illustrated lecture by Mr. F. A.
McNeill, Australian Museum zoologist.
Although most of the Barrier is stark reef, there are many groups of beauti ful islands, high, wooded and well watered, associated with it; and the variety of fish and bird life which has its home on the islands and reefs is amazing and bewildering.
In describing the strategic value of the Reef, Mr. McNeill said there were only a few good ship channels through it. The Japs, undoubtedly, had detailed charts of the whole region.
The death of Miss E. Wilkinson, who had lived in Fiji for many years, occur red in Suva on January 23.
Mr. Allan Robertson who, before join ing the RAAF, belonged to the staff of the New Guinea Administration, was married recently to Miss Dorothea Brown in Quebec, Canada.