12 Dec 2011

Solander's Legacy

From Solander's Legacy, 9:00 am on 12 December 2011

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There were two botanists on the Endeavour when it arrived in New Zealand in 1769. But only one - Joseph Banks - got all the press coverage, and a major landform named after him. Justin Gregory asks who was the other botanist? What did he do and what happened to this man whose name still graces the windswept Solander Islands near Foveaux Strait.

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