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Description: | This Wombat was the first to be brought to England from Australia. It was captured on an island in Bass Strait by the crew of the wrecked ship Sydney Cove. It was presented alive to John Hunter, Governor of New South Wales, in 1798 but later died. Hunter sent the body in a cask of spirits to the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society. The taxidermist was unfamiliar with Australian animals, and mistakenly mounted it in the posture of a kangaroo. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | beyond the North East animals natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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