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The world’s largest island
nation, Australia’s vast coastline and splendid beaches made surf swimming popular,
though risky. The surf life-saving reel, designed by Lyster Ormsby, was first
demonstrated on 23 December 1906 at Bondi Beach. Two weeks later it was first
used to rescue two schoolboys swept out in a rip - twenty-two years later one
of those boys, Charles Kingsford-Smith, made the first aeroplane flight across
the Pacific Ocean.