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SENTINELS OVER PEDDER

Last month Paul and I, following in the footsteps of thousands, struck out for Lake Pedder. We couldn’t, however, find the track where it leaves the Gordon River Road west of Maydena. That’s because it begins on a boggy plain and was probably always shifting pre-1973, when it was thronged with mud-to-the-knees pilgrims on their way to the doomed lake.

So we set off for higher ground. We ended

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