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    Landscape & legend

    Sep 05, 2018 3 minutes
    BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE
    PHOTOGRAPHY KEN BRASS

    As a child, Widge Curtin remembers looking up at the twin peaks of Mounts Lidgbird and Gower that loomed over the landscape of her home on Lord Howe Island and marvelling at how amazing the world was. Given that Widge’s world was the 11-kilometre-long World Heritage-listed island, located 660km east of Port Macquarie on the NSW coast, she was starting with a pretty high benchmark. While she grew up to travel extensively and counts herself fortunate to have visited many amazing places, none has

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