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The woman, aged in her eighties, is said to have been hiking a steep trail on Lizard Island but did not return to the cruise ship

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Authorities are investigating the death of an elderly Australian woman who was left behind by the cruise ship she was travelling on at the Great Barrier Reef’s Lizard Island.