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Aussies abroad on alert 24/7 as mercy flights sell out Australians stranded abroad are being made to play a game of fastest fingers first in order to secure seats on government-organised repatriation flights. News by MADURA MCCORMACK Premium Content Subscriber only AUSTRALIANS stranded abroad are being made to play a game of fastest fingers first in order to secure seats on government-organised repatriation flights, with tickets on two London to Darwin ...

NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner says the Top End is doing some "heavy lifting" to get stranded Australians home.

"Kon-Tiki" is the record of an astonishing adventure - a journey 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east, led by the mythical hero Kon-Tiki. He decided to prove his theory by duplicating the legendary voyage. On April 28, 1947, Heyerdahl and five other adventurers sailed from Peru on a balsa log raft. After three s...