Prince Harry needs binoculars to see what new comrades can

When Prince Harry begins patrols with Australia's mostly indigenous NORFORCE regiment, he'll need binoculars to see what they can, a professor said on Wednesday.

The Northern Territory based unit patrols rugged outback areas, and is the first deployment in Prince Harry's month-long attachment to the Australian armed forces.

Extensive research has found outback indigenous people have eyesight four times better than non-indigenous people, Professor Hugh Taylor from the University of Melbourne's Indigenous Eye Health unit told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Professor Taylor said it has been long recognized by international eyesight experts that these indigenous people have the best eyesight in the world -- calling it"super sight."

"The super sight is the way their retina and brain is wired, and they are probably like that from childhood," he said.

"There may well be a number of the Aboriginal soldiers in NORFORCE who have much better vision than mainstream Australians or regular soldiers.

"So if Prince Harry is out with some of these Aboriginal people, he may well find that their vision is actually far better than his.

"He may have to get a pair of binoculars to see what they see with their naked eye."

NORFORCE has worked with Navy and Customs ships patrolling Australia's northern waters looking for people smuggling boats.

Professor Taylor surmised the ability was an evolutionary development given they were a hunter gathering people for tens of thousands of years. Endi