267:(now Papua New Guinea) in the early 1970s. Dorothy continued to work as a journalist in Australia and in 1991, she travelled to the Arctic, fulfilling a long-held desire to “go north and reach as close to 77° 52' north as I could get to match the 77° 52' south I had achieved on the voyage south on the Magga Dan” and to find out “how the Arctic differed from the Antarctic and what were the similarities.” She wrote about her trip in
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