Australian Geographic

Craig Leeson

TASMANIA STATE RECIPIENT

s a child growing up in northern Tasmania, Craig Leeson was entranced by the rock pools he loved to explore along the shoreline near his home town of Burnie. Each pool seemed to him to be its own tiny and perfect biosphere where marine organisms

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