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ABC Island is a PG rated location in Second Life created by ABC Innovations. It was founded by Abi Goldflake, Lise Robbiani, Lolah Ivanova and Arty Pinion for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and was officially opened on March 16, 2007. Other admins (Officers) include: Gary Hazlitt and Willard Bellic. Lise Robbiani and Lolah Ivanova have since left ABC.

It was designed by Gary Hazlitt who also designed Big Pond for Telstra and several other commercial islands including Pontiac.

The Island is popular with Australians and has also gained popularity in the furry community, who see the island as a safe and friendly venue to meet and build. Nine of the island's admin team are furries themselves.

1 Features
2 Television appearances
3 Events
4 Milestones
5 ABC Friends Admin
6 The Crash
7 References
8 External links

[edit] Features

ABC Island on Secondlife

ABC Island contains:

an Eco House, an environmentally friendly home.
The Triple J Unearthed Club; Triple J is the ABC's Youth Radio Network on FM Radio.
A representation of Melbourne's Laneways.
- The Laneways have since been removed and replaced with a garden area.
The Amphitheatre where meetings and seminars take place.
A Central Broadcast Tower, where people usually "rez in" (appear at the island).
A massive, four level sandbox, which is the most popular feature on the island.
A small beach area.
Pool Studio and Gallery.

[edit] Television appearances

ABC Island has appeared on Stateline to launch Melbourne's Laneways. Footage for the segment was recorded by in-world TV house, SLCN.

It has also appeared on Can We Help? in a segment called "Pete Investigates". Lisa Dapto from RMIT took the host of the show into Secondlife and visited ABC Island, RMIT Island and a few other Islands. The show went to air on the 15th of August, 2008.

[edit] Events

Perhaps the most popular regular event on the Island were the CSIRO Science Seminars held at the Island which were hosted by Lise Robbiani and "broadcast" in-world and online by SLCN.

There was an introduction and discussion about a short feature film called Thursdays Fictions which also became an Island within Secondlife.

An after show discussion was held after The Librarians first aired on ABC 1

A slideshow and chat in Laneways, A feature on ABC Island resembling Melbourne's Laneways was then shown on Stateline a program on ABC TV.

Angsty Rossini teaches a weekly building class in the sandbox.

Rockit, a popular text-based game show, is hosted by Wolfie Rankin on the island.

A competition for the Ladies to dress up for Melbourne Cup Day was warmly recieved too.

For Christmas 2008, We created an Australian Christmas, to show what a summer Christmas in a part of Australia might look like, while underlining Australian topics such as Drought, Fire danger, Water conservation and the environment.

Aunties' Building Challenge with Katisha Honi; Held twice a month.

[edit] Milestones

Records since April 2009.

Komuso Tokugawa became the first live performer on the Island, as part of the Island's Second birthday in March 2009. Komuso is an Australian blues musician who lives in Tokyo, Japan.

Katisha Honis' "Aunties' Building Challenge" also began in March 2009.

Pool studio was created in August, the structure contains a gallery, a place to talk, a cafe, a theatre area to watch films which were made by users of the [Pool website] http://pool.org.au and a greenscreen studio to create movies (Called Machinima). It has not been officially opened as of the 1st of September 2009.

[edit] ABC Friends Admin

The ABC Friends Admin assist by providing content to the island, helping new visitors to Secondlife and provide island security and general management.

The original ABC Friends Admin were chosen during the first week by Abi.

Name	Notes
Lowell Cremone	Original. Owner of the Metaverse Journal
Simon Kline	Original. Mentor and Scripter
Wolfie Rankin	Original. Now also "ABC Event Deputy"
Vermus Dryke	Furry, often appearing as a blue fox
Dustin Varun	Furry.
Silence Starbrook	Furry.
Gumby Roffo	Builder
Haal Ratner	Fursuiter
Herzog Halderman	ABC employee
Lilli Field	Artist, Designer, Builder [Pool Studio]
Quadrapop Lane	Artist who owns Quadrapop Tree Island with CaptainCrunch Hax
CaptainCrunch Hax	Partner of Quadrapop Lane
Ranger Kanto	Furry wolf
Syncere Talon	Furry unicorn
Alberic Rotaru
Cabsav Lane
Juanita Deharo	Builder/artist *Pending
Sakkano Imako	Furry. Returned to ABC
Katisha Honi	Neko, Host of Aunties' Building Challenge
Mudslinger Ning	Furry, Builder.
Artfox Daviau	Builder *Pending

[edit] The Crash

Crash prior to backup

Not long after the island opened, visitors discovered that almost all the features on the island were missing. Early assumptions were that griefers had attacked it during the night and this theory was widely spread by the media, including the Australian newspaper and the ABC itself.^[1]^[2]

Some reports mentioned a crater appearing near the Sandbox area, and boxes with corporate logos were said to have been strewn around the island; however, the crater was merely the Triple J club minus it's roof and the boxes were simply left by Secondlife users who had noticed the "free for all" since the settings were also no longer intact, meaning building was available across the island. It was later discovered that a server had simply lost data, causing the apparent destruction, a backup from an earlier date was all that was required to repair the damage.^[3]

[edit] References

↑ Simon Canning. Cyber-attack on Aunty's island, The Australian, May 23, 2007, accessed March 5, 2009.
↑ ABC's Second Life presence vandalised, ABC News Online, May 22, 2007, accessed March 5, 2009.
↑ Tateru Nino. ABC attempts to set the record straight, Second Life Insider, June 7, 2007, accessed March 5, 2009.