Panorama of Macquarie Island, looking south from North Head, 1968

Great panorama! And so pity they will close the research station... Governments cut research budgets everywhere these days :-(

Terrific work and Image George, Governments and advisors are so out of touch all over the world sadly.

splendid pano!

A well worthy reprise and especially at such a time. It cooks up well and I hope that the image and your comments get noticed Down Under!

Goes to show politicians rarely make good decisions. :( Magnificent capture!

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Magnifique cette vue panoramique,vraiment imprenable +++++

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Excellent.
Have a nice evening

A most interesting pano and what a short sighted decision by your government! That's so typically neo liberal- everything that doesn't bring immediate financial gain seems dispensable to them. Ah yes, the world is a disc and climate change is an invention of the left and the greens....

Well said, Gudrun!

Thank you, Gudrun. The claim is that the old station needs replacement but that would be too expensive. There are no other mid-latitude meteorological monitoring sites in this part of the Southern Ocean. This is used for comprehensive met. observations, and measurements of atmospheric composition and ozone. But bean-counting is the main priority.

Thank you mixpix, Proxar, Lian, Buck, Roger, Annemarie, Neil, William, Malik, Gerard, June, and Zsuzsa. Enjoy yourselves and best wishes till next week.

Brilliant job George !

I read about that.

What IS this Idiocy Season the wold is in. It can stop right now and grow UP !

Apparently it is not just one season, Pam. Successive Oz governments have cut finding to the station which has meant it falling into disrepair. Also the Australian Antarctic Division are saying "increasing occupational health and safety risks, environmental contamination and risks from ocean inundation require that the base undergoes a major upgrade".
It then starts to get messy with politicians saying the country is now having to allocate far more resources to securing the country from terrorists that there is far less funding for anything else. Warmongering nations which get involved with global politics should also help fund major ecology projects on our planet but I doubt if that will happen unless oil is a by-product.

While cost-cutting has been a preoccupation of Oz governments in recent years, I think the AAD have been playing a game of their own with this statement, Neil. I don't claim to know the full story, but the Minister's office has now issued a contradictory statement that the station will not be closing. I'll email you separately with more.

A wonderful panorama and a wonderful landscape, George !

Nice view. A beautiful pano! I saw it lLARGE!!

This is so beautiful George. What an attractive scene. An outstanding pano and it is even better on black. Well captured, - I love it

An update with a positive message. After consultations with the Meteorology Bureau and Tasmanian Parks (who run the island), the relevant Minister issued an announcement today in which he said "... I have now asked my department to provide me with options to ensure a permanent all-year-round presence on the island is maintained. In the meantime, operations on Macquarie Island will continue as normal." Let's hope that finalises things!

We'll keep our fingers crossed!

fine panorama George ... looks beautiful !

Thanks, Bev, surprising what can be done with some ancient slides. :-)

alloge