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    Mongolia – Nights under the nine stars of the Pleiades

    by Mike Pole January 26, 2016
    by Mike Pole January 26, 2016

    Erik von Daniken’s ‘Chariots of the Gods’ came to my town when I was a kid. Alexandra, New Zealand was perhaps a …

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    Lebanon – Last Gasp of the Cedar Forests

    by Mike Pole January 23, 2016
    by Mike Pole January 23, 2016

    Europe to Australasia is long-haul, and if you are not into heroics, it’s nice to break the journey somewhere. I wonder how …

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    Estonia – the Swamp and the language tree

    by Mike Pole January 16, 2016
    by Mike Pole January 16, 2016

    Estonia was my first-ever experience of driving, by myself, on the right hand side of the road. I tried to keep it simple. All I …

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    Mongolia – “Armour-piercing, mate”

    by Mike Pole January 8, 2016
    by Mike Pole January 8, 2016

    “I’ll have to show these to my colleague”. The security guard at Brisbane’s International Airport took the two objects from my bum-bag …

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    Turkistan, Kazakhstan, not Tukmenistan

    by Mike Pole January 5, 2016
    by Mike Pole January 5, 2016

    I’m not at all sure I remembered when all those ‘stans’ appeared on my radar. Did I know about them before the …

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    Mongolia – The Ghost of Moron

    by Mike Pole January 2, 2016
    by Mike Pole January 2, 2016

    It was on the flight back to UIaan Baatar that I remembered the ghost. My field partner, Nyambayar, and I had been …

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    Kalimantan, Indonesia – Twenty minutes from death

    by Mike Pole December 31, 2015
    by Mike Pole December 31, 2015

    The ‘high-wall’ of a mine has been the undoing of many a geologist (if an opencast mine is targeting something flat and dipping, …

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    Mongolia – From Death-threats to a camel-ride

    by Mike Pole December 29, 2015
    by Mike Pole December 29, 2015

    It’s March 2009 in Mongolia and there is an ill-feeling along the Gobi Altai. The year before, and some months after the …

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    West Timor – Mine of Women and the Palm Wine Bomb

    by Mike Pole December 12, 2015
    by Mike Pole December 12, 2015

    West Timor – Mine of Women, and the Palm-Wine Bomb I never thought to see a mine run by women. By why …

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    Would you like a beer? – Guests of the Kalimantan Police

    by Mike Pole November 22, 2015
    by Mike Pole November 22, 2015

    Roni is a Batak. This is a christian tribe that lives in the Lake Toba area of the otherwise Muslim Sumatra. The Bataks …

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