RM2R8Y420–Kangaroo Hunt in Western Australia, 1857. 'This exhilarating sport commences before sunrise, and the sense of freedom and enjoyment which one experiences, mounted on a good horse, in the early freshness of an Australian morning, on the boundless plains gemmed with the richest flowers, must be felt to be appreciated. The kangaroos, tall as grenadiers, with heads like rabbits, and tails like bedposts, afford an unlimited quantity of hard galloping; and as they are not bad to eat and are destructive to the farmers' crops their rapid extinction is inevitable'. From "Illustrated London News&qu
RMMY0H5E–Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, 1 September 1963. The man in the picture is founder Alex Griffiths. From the Queensland Heritage Registerid=602720 ) . The Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary was established by beekeeper and floriculturist Alex Griffiths in 1947 as a small-scale tourist venture featuring lorikeet feeding displays in which tourists could participate. By at least 1953 it was known as the Currumbin Bird Sanctuary and by the mid-1950s had become an iconic tourist attraction on the Gold Coast. The place had evolved by the early 1970s to offer visitors a variety of experiences, including:
RM2DG6N1T–Melbourne, Australia, 3 August, 2020. A solitary man is seen waiting at a tram stop on Swanston Street during COVID-19 in Melbourne, Australia. As Melbourne experiences its first day of Stage 4 restrictions, along with a curfew from 8pm to 5am, Premier Daniel Andrews today announced the shutdown plan for all but the most essential businesses for the next 6 weeks at least. Victoria recorded another 429 COVID-19 cases and 13 more deaths, bringing the states total active cases to 6,489.Credit: Dave Hewison/Alamy Live News
RMMXYNA0–Mr Mick Busuttin coming down Coconut Palm head-first, Brampton Island,. Barrier Miner Sat 28 Jan 1933 Tourists to Great Barrier Reef Dr Macgillivray Relates His Experiences [...] Mr Busuttin, a Maltese, has two married sons who are very hardy specimens, especially Mick, the elder. Mick was engaged at one time in capturing crocodiles for the various zoological gardens in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. It is nothing for him to defend himself single handed against a shark and kill it with a knife. He knows all passages and the islands intimately and ran with consumate ease barefooted over th
RMG5Y8E2–Shirley Nolan
RMRJ5W4F–. The story of the earth and man [microform]. Geology; Paleontology; Man; Géologie; Paléontologie; Homme. 210 THE STOEY OF THE EARTH AND MAN.. * • the singular fact that they not only did not improve throughout the vast Mesozoio time, but that they have been in the progress of subsequent geological ages expelled out of the great eastern continent, and, with the exception of the American opossums, banished, like convicts, to Australia. Yet, notwithstanding their multiplied travels and long experiences, they have made little advance. It thus seems that the Mesozoic mammals were, from the evoluti
RMRDJFCH–. Beasts & men; being experiences for half a century among wild animals;. Animals. 196 BEASTS AND MEN colour and is composed of crystalline bodies. It has been bought chiefly by Dr. Fraser of Edinburgh and Dr. Moeller of Australia, and I hope before long that the results of their experiments will be published. All this that I have related with regard to snakes gives some colour of truth to many of those Oriental snake stories which date back several thousand years. There seems no. Indian jugglers. inherent improbability in the tale of Mithridates the king, who made. himself gradually immun
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