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The Lord Howe Island Signal

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The top 10 most beautiful airport landings in the world

Stephen Sia, The Lord Howe Island Signal
Land & environment
Saskia Jain. There’s something almost magical about pressing your nose against an aeroplane window as your destination comes into view. That moment when the seatbelt sign chimes, and the aircraft begins its graceful descent offers front-row seats to some of Earth’s most spectacular vistas.

Pixie Hanson

Stephen Sia, The Lord Howe Island Signal
Athletics
On Sunday 30 March, 2025, Pixie Hanson won the 2km Beach Run (U14 Female) at the Australian Surf Life Saving Championships on the Gold Coast. Pixie raced some of the best track, cross-country and beach running athletes in the country, and stormed home to a convincing 12 second win.

Phasmids and Balls Pyramid exhibition at Prague Zoo

Stephen Sia, The Lord Howe Island Signal
International
Prague Zoo Director Miroslav Bobek in a recent article explains the Prague connection: “We joined the effort to save Lord Howe Island stick insect years ago, when we started to support financially the genetical research ... and also on the Ball’s Pyramid the stick insects hover on the edge of survival.
Prague Zoo

Earlier articles

Back from the brink: Lord Howe woodhen population surges

Stephen Sia, The Lord Howe Island Signal
News
Lord Howe Island's native woodhen has made a remarkable recovery, with the latest survey revealing a population of at least 1,638 birds on the Island. This is a significant turnaround for the Lord Howe woodhen, which was reduced to just nine breeding pairs in the 1970s.

Air service transition: QantasLink to Skytrans

Stephen Sia, The Lord Howe Island Signal
News
In October last year, Transport New South Wales announced that Skytrans had been awarded the RPT Air route from Sydney to Lord Howe Island as a replacement for the QantasLink service which had operated since June, 1991 ... Lord Howe Island Board invited members of the public to join a "virtual" QA session with Skytrans CEO, Alan Milne ...

A celestial celebration comes to Lord Howe Island – Dark Sky Festival

Stephen Sia, The Lord Howe Island Signal
Festival
Lord Howe Island residents are invited to experience an unforgettable week of stargazing, unique dining and immersive science experiences at the inaugural Dark Sky Festival, running from 26th April to 1st May, 2025.

2025 Lord Howe Island Sea Slug Census February, 28 to March 9

Stephen Sia, The Lord Howe Island Signal
Land & environment
Lord Howe Island will host its eighth annual Sea Slug Census from February 28 to March 9. Launched at Nelson Bay, NSW in December, 2013, the Sea Slug Census program has spread across Australia, and to sites in Indonesia and Vanuatu, with more than 4,000 participants photographically documenting the distribution of over 1,100 species to date.

The last ‘Met Family’ depart Lord Howe – is this the end of an era?

Stephen Sia, The Lord Howe Island Signal
Climate
On Thursday, 20th February, Andrew Jenner’s rotation as local observer for the Bureau of Meteorology came to an end ... If all goes according to plan, Andrew and Misty will be the last Met observers to be resident on Lord Howe.

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About The Lord Howe Island Signal

The Signal is proudly published 12 per year by The Signal Pty Ltd.  

The Signal is designed, printed and distributed from Lord Howe Island. The Signal is a community newspaper and happily accepts all offers of stories, photos and art.   However, we cannot guarantee in which issue the submission will appear and we won’t publish content that is offensive. The views expressed by individual contributors are not necessarily those of other contributors, the editors or publishers.

Enquiries and submissions thesignal2898@gmail.com c/ Post Office Island NSW 2989

The Lord Howe Island Signal website

On 4 June 2024, The Lord Howe Island Signal website launched. The Lord Howe Island Signal receiving funding support from NSW Government’s Regional Media Fund in order to build the website.

The participants in the project to build the site:  

  • LHI Management Services – owner and publisher of The Lord Howe Island Signal, represented by Stephen Sia.
  • Australian Rural & Regional News – the first and only platform featuring independent news from across all of rural and regional Australia, represented by the  ARR.News editor, Fiona Fox. Australian Rural & Regional News  showcases stories from a growing number of local and independent news publishers, from established mastheads to modern digital publications, broadening their reach. It is proud to have  The Lord Howe Island Signal as a founding contributor.
    The Lord Howe Island Signal website was developed by Bridget Knox from CodeLab.
  • Ben Hawke, veteran television journalist and producer, long time visitor to Lord Howe Island.

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