Lake Eacham
Volcanic crater lake ringed by rainforest, once home to a rainbowfish found nowhere else on earth.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Lake Eacham, a volcanic crater lake in the Atherton Tablelands near Cairns, follows the disappearance of a fish found nowhere else on earth. In the nineteen eighties an illegal release of predator fish emptied these waters of its native rainbowfish, and biologists came up empty-handed. You will hear where the species turned out to be quietly surviving, far from the lake it was named for.
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