Lord Howe: mysterious but alluring

By John Rozentals
Updated March 18 2021 - 12:31pm, first published October 27 2019 - 4:00pm
Lord Howe Island: what it's all about. Image: Jackson Arkadieff.
Lord Howe Island: what it's all about. Image: Jackson Arkadieff.

Lord Howe Island is packed with strange happenings and strange stories, probably none stranger that the rediscovery of its unique stick insect, aka tree lobster, phasmid or, technically correctly, Dryococelus australis, existing as a lone colony of just 24 insects on a forlorn, windy cliff-face on Balls Pyramid, some 23 kilometres south-east of Lord Howe Island proper.

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