Apple Isle

NSW residents can now freely travel to the Apple Isle after Tasmania this week opened its border to the state for the first time in more than seven months.

No Aboriginal crew has ever competed in the dash to the Apple Isle.

Tasmania has become a "living laboratory" that is unlocking the secret lives of cows, monitoring stress levels among oysters and warning vineyards of disease and frost to help boost farming on Australia's Apple Isle.

Perched off the southern coast is the "apple isle" of Tasmania, so nicknamed because it has long produced large crops of the fruit.

I verily believe there is no Gael even now who would not in his heart of hearts let drift by him the Elysiums of Virgil, Dante, and Milton, to grasp at the Moy Mell, the Apple Isle, of the unknown Irish pagan!