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How Google helped find a lost world

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In 2005 biologist Dr Julian Bayliss, at Kew Gardens in the UK, discovered Mount Mabu while scouring Google Earth satellite maps of vegetation in ­Mozambique.

Long isolated by civil war and remote geography, the previously ­unmapped mountain proved to be covered in dense rainforest and was brimming with new and rare species.

Read the full story in Australian Geographic magazine #120.

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