The Mostbeautifulisland I' Ve Ever Seen ; in the Week an Irishman Finds Out If He Gets the 'Best Job in the World' - As Caretaker On Hamilton Island in Australia - Philip Nolan Pays a Visit First... And Is Lost for Words [Eire Region]

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On Wednesday morning, a shimmering sun will rise, as it always does, over the Whitsunday Islands off the Queensland coast, painting the wooded hills a luxuriant green, and the coral-rich sea in gently contrasting shades of cool aqua and incandescent jade. 'Perfect' somehow seems too small and inconsequential a word to describe this meandering chain of 74 idyllic retreats.

Some are inhabited, others remain as solitary and pristine as they were when Captain James Cook discovered and named them in 1770 - erroneously, as it happens, since the day he discovered them was not Whit Sunday at all.

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The Mostbeautifulisland I' Ve Ever Seen ; in the Week an Irishman Finds Out If He Gets the 'Best Job in the World' - As Caretaker On Hamilton Island in Australia - Philip Nolan Pays a Visit First... And Is Lost for Words [Eire Region]

But that sunrise this week will also herald the day of reckoning for 16 of the most anxious people on the planet because, by the time darkness once again pulls a cloak over the archipelago, one of them will successfully have been appointed to the so-called best job on earth.

Among them is George Karellas, from Bettystown in Co. Meath, a 31- year-old former studio manager who worked in RTE and in Carr Communications. If he wins, his new job title will an...

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