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Add to this adventurous tourists and food pioneers, and you have a recipe to transform the island's once bleak fortunes. If you'd like to try some ancient water, Mark Curran can help you out. Standing in a minus 18C fridge, he is showing off a column of 90,000-year-old ice, which he gouged from Antarctica himself. Curran, a glaciologist originally from Dublin, is based in Sandy Bay in central Hobart, Tasmania, where he studies these ice cores for the Australian Antarctic Division.
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