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An Unknown Wreck: Macquarie Island
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"Chief harpooner, Henry Whalley, squinted at the frozen island"
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1999...
1999
An Unknown Wreck: Macquarie Island
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Epigraph: There calmly let him sleep./ Not all the winds that blow/ Can shake his bed, and he shall keep/ A quiet watch below. (Epitaph of Henry Whalley, son of a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman and the unofficial governor of Kangaroo Island. (J.S. Thomson, 1912, Voyages and Wanderings in Far Off Lands and Seas.))
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- 1999 winner Banjo Paterson Writing Awards — Open Poetry
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