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Australia has several shipwrecks that are worthy of further investigation. And you don t have to don the Scuba gear to see some of the most spectacular.
Flying in, I see it. Not the hulking green mass of Norfolk Island, which looks like a dairy farm plonked in the middle of the ocean, but its smaller sibling six kilometres to the south, a rugged, uninhabited (except by thousands of seabirds) red-earth island that s been called the Uluru of the Pacific .
It s called Phillip Island, and getting there involves a mini-expedition that starts with a short, often rough boat trip from Norfolk; you then have to leap ashore onto slippery, wave-sloshed rocks and scramble up ladders and ropes to reach the island s higher, drier slopes.
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On my first visit to Norfolk a few years ago, the weather had been against me. This time I ve got three days to make it happen. Not that there aren t other outdoorsy things to do while I wait.