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Dr Hugh Cairns was educated in the UK and has degrees from Oxford and Edinburgh. In Sydney in 1976, Elkin pointed him to the Milky Way as a 'tracing-board of stories' in Northern Australia. During years as a college principal he studied Aboriginal and astronomical materials and sites, and in 1988 started research with a view to publications (eg. Oxford III's book Archaeoastronomy in the 1990's). He joined J. J.Drew in 1997 for a research trip to Wardaman country. They recorded Bill Yidumduma Harney one night pointing to Corona Australis as important in Wardaman culture, and he was invited to chronicle the Dreaming worlds of Wardaman astronomy in 1998. Cairns has lived in Sydney and Merimbula.

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