The Last Lord of Gardiners Island
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Following Robert David Lion Gardiner's death last week, reports described Gardiners Island as the largest under private ownership, which is charming but far from the case.
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Sir, I hope that all city councillors saw the Country Calendar programme, Saturday January 27. The programme graphically showed the importance of wetlands. Such areas were prolific around our estuaries in 1961. The destruction of our wetlands around Tahunanui, Annesbrook and Stoke horrifies me.
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The mystery of what killed Oetzi - the 5,300-year-old Iceman found in the Alps - may finally be over.
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Rhode Island legend tells of a spectral ship that haunts the waters off Block Island, bursting into flame and sinking into the ocean. Depending on who's spinning the tale, the islanders involved in the human drama turned out to be heroes &#151; or monsters.
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Britain's oldest serving parliamentarian, Lord Renton, dies at the age of 98.
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By Mary Anne Ostrom, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jan. 30--The search continued today for the pioneering Bay Area computer scientist who went missing after he left Sunday morning for what he told family was a day sailing trip to the Farallon Islands to dispose of his mother's ashes.
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A 78-year-old man has became the latest to face sex abuse allegations on the remote British Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island, founded more than 200 years ago by mutineers.
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Dear Helaine and Joe: I am interested in information on 'antique Lowestoft.' We inherited these pieces and they are of every type with some pieces set into tables.
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The 84-year-old died in his sleep at his house in Lyford Cay in the Bahamas, The Times of London quoted his wife Sheila as saying.
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By Robin Turner  Tombstoning - the craze in which people jump into the sea from rocks or tall buildings - will kill again, coastguards warned last night. Their alert follows the death of a 46-year-old man from South Wales, who died after jumping 30ft into the sea off the South Devon coast.
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A fossil resembling the Loch Ness monster has been found on a remote Arctic island. The well-preserved bones belonged to a plesiosaur, a giant marine reptile with a long neck and tail, plump body and legs which evolved into flippers.
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A fisherman's cottage near John o' Groats has become the base for one of Britain's most celebrated sculptors as he works on one of his most important commissions.
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PITCAIRN ISLAND Half the men on remote Pitcairn Island, which is populated by descendants of the Bounty mutineers, go on trial Wednesday over a string of alleged sex attacks dating back up to 40 years.
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"The club extends its sympathy to his wife, family and friends."  MOTORCYCLING: Latest on Isle of Man TT crash The name of the motorcyclist killed along with two other people following a crash during the Senior race at the Isle of Man TT has been released. via UTV
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Sydney, Oct. 27. (Guardian News Service): Six descendants of the original mutineers on the Bounty were found guilty on Monday of 32 sexual assault offences in one of the last and remotest outposts of the British empire.
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Coronation Street character Vera Duckworth makes her final appearance in the long-running soap.
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The publication date for the last instalment of the Harry Potter saga has been announced.