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20 unusual facts about "Crocodile" Dundee


Bob Katter, Sr.

Katter was appointed by the Australian Tourist Commission as an ambassador to the United States for tourism following the success of the film "Crocodile" Dundee there in 1986.

Bror With

The name came from the concept being as difficult as making a cross between a Dromedary and a Crocodile,

Camperdown, Dundee

This is because Adam Duncan (1 July 1731 - 4 August 1804), defeated the Dutch fleet off there on 11 October 1797 in the Battle of Camperdown.

Fintry, Dundee

Charlie Adam was born and grew up in Fintry, where his family still reside (including Charlie Adam (footballer born 1962) Snr.

Derek Johnstone was born in Fintry and lived there when he was signed by Rangers.

Hilltown, Dundee

The stadia of the two professional football teams Dundee FC and Dundee United FC are on the north eastern border of the Hilltown, Dens Park is slightly south of Tannadice Park which is closer to the Stobswell area.

Killing caves of Phnom Sampeau

Remnants of war artillery (of the government forces) are seen there, oriented towards Phnom Krapau (Crocodile Mountain), which was the strategic location of the Khmer Rouge during the war.

Law, Dundee

In the years 1992 to 1994 the facilities on the summit of the Law were upgraded by Dundee District Council and Scottish Enterprise Tayside with additional funding from the European Commission's regional development fund.

The memorial is lit with a large flame at its top on a number of significant days, viz: 25 September (in memory of the Battle of Loos - in which many members of the local Black Watch regiment lost their lives), 24 October (United Nations Day), 11 November (Armistice Day) and Remembrance Sunday

Neverland

Animals (referred to as "beasts") live throughout Neverland, such as Bears, Tigers, Lions, Wolves, Flamingoes and Crocodiles.

New Park Quarry

This site is in the north Cotswolds, near Longborough, and contains the well-preserved remains (disarticulated) of Crocodiles and Dinosaurs.

Ngoma, Zambia

Crocodiles live in the river, although it doesn't get deep enough for hippos.

One Piece Movie: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta

The film is the eighth feature based on the One Piece media franchise, adapting a story arc from the original manga by Eiichiro Oda, wherein the Straw Hat Pirates led by Monkey D. Luffy travel to the Kingdom of Alabasta to save the war- and drought-plagued country from Sir Crocodile and his secret criminal organization Baroque Works.

Vivi describes a brief history on how the Baroque Works leader Crocodile has used Dance Powder while posing as the country's hero.

Regent Inns

Their menu offers Australian-themed foods such as Kangaroo and Crocodile fillets.

St Marys, Dundee

The esteemed poet and winner of the Witbread Prize for Poetry, Don Paterson was raised in St Mary's, as was former Dundee footballer and current Dundee United coach Steve Campbell.

St Mary's is in a residential area of Dundee located in the extreme northwest of the city, to the north of Ardler and west of Kirkton.

Victoria Matlock

Once in New York, Victoria auditioned for many different shows and was cast in TheatreWorks USA's production of Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile as Mrs. Primm.

West End, Dundee

Since 1998, the city council has developed a "Cultural Quarter" at the boundary between the city centre and the West End which is now home to the Dundee Repertory Theatre, the Whitehall Theatre, the Sensation Science Centre and Dundee Contemporary Arts building as well as other commercial galleries and studios, and the university's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.

The university’s College of Life Sciences located on Hawkhill incorporates the Wellcome Trust Biocentre, Sir James W. Black Centre, MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit and Cancer Research UK Centre laboratories.


Angul district

Reptiles like the Gharial, mugger crocodile, fresh water turtle and poisonous and non-poisonous snakes can also be sighted.

Chenanisuchus

Chenanisuchus ("Chenane crocodile") is a genus of dyrosaurid crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous of Mali and the Late Palaeocene of Sidi Chenane in Morocco.

Crocoduck

The crocoduck is an imagined hybrid animal with the head of a crocodile and the body of a duck proposed by Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron.

Crocodylus anthropophagus

Crocodylus anthropophagus was the largest predator encountered by human ancestors at Olduvai Gorge, as indicated by hominid specimens preserving crocodile bite marks from these sites.

Crocodylus novaeguineae

This crocodile was over-hunted for its valuable skin in the mid 20th century, but conservation measures have been put in place, it is reared in ranches and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists it as being of "Least Concern".

The IUCN listed this crocodile as being "Vulnerable" in its Red List of Threatened Species in 1986 and 1988, but changed the assessment to "Least Concern" in 1996.

Cuddie Springs

Amongst the megafauna bone layers there is a tooth of a crocodile (Pallimnarchus sp.) that became extinct long before 40,000 years ago (Gillespie and David 2001).

David G. Compton

His 1970 novel The Steel Crocodile was nominated for the Nebula Award, and his 1974 novel The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe was filmed as Death Watch by Bertrand Tavernier in 1979.

Garden Museum

On the east side of the tomb is carved the family arms, on the west side a skull and a seven-headed hydra, on the south side broken columns, Corinthian capitals, a pyramid and ruins, and on the north side shells, a crocodile, and a view of some Egyptian buildings.

Gena the Crocodile

Noel (Gena) the Crocodile made his debut in 1966's novel Noel the Crocodile and His Friends by Eduard Uspensky.

The crocodile's name is a typical form of the Russian male name Gennady.

George Abercromby, 4th Baron Abercromby

Abercromby married Lady Julia Janet Georgiana Duncan (b. 1840), the daughter of Adam Haldane-Duncan, 2nd Earl of Camperdown and his wife Juliana Cavendish Philips, at the earl's residence Camperdown House on 6 October 1858.

Gigantopithecus

However, younger, weak, or injured individuals may have been vulnerable to predation by tigers, pythons, crocodiles, machairodonts, hyenas, bears, and Homo erectus.

Gnathosaurus

Fragments of Gnathosaurus jaw were first discovered in 1832 in the Solnhofen limestones of southern Germany but were mistaken for a piece of teleosaurid crocodile jaw, hence the synonym Crocodylus multidens.

Hare-Abian Nights

In a send-up of the "gong show" set in an Arabian palace (similar to the gong show in I Love to Singa), the short opens with a band Timbuk Two Plus 3 playing Sweet Georgia Brown trying to entertain the sultan, with the performance ending with the floor being dropped out from under them, sending the band into a crocodile pit below.

Herpetology

Modern herpetological showmen of note include Steve Irwin, popularly known as the "Crocodile Hunter", and the star Austin Stevens, popularly known as 'AustinSnakeman', famous for TV series Austin Stevens: Snakemaster.

Jing! Jingeling! Der Weihnachtsschnappi!

"Jing! Jingeling! Der Weihnachtsschnappi!" is a 2005 song released by animated German crocodile, Schnappi.

Kanchipuram district

The Madras Crocodile Bank, a crocodile breeding center, is located about 14 km from Mamallapuram.

Le Tigre Clothing

First offered in 1977, Le Tigre polos sported a leaping tiger in lieu of Lacoste's signature crocodile and Retro Fox's leaping fox.

M. potens

Metriorhynchus potens, an extinct Late Jurassic metriorhynchid crocodile species

Mahamba

The Bobangi aboriginals have proclaimed this animal to be unlike any other they have seen, and have only compared it to other creatures, such as a Nkoli (the Bobangi word for crocodile) or the legendary Nguma-monene for the sake of comparison.

Marília

A pre-historic crocodile, Mariliasuchus amarali, was found in Marilia and its name was a tribute to the city.

Muggle-Wump

In doing this he angers the Enormous Crocodile into wanting to eat more children, only to be thwarted by the Roly-Poly Bird (another recurring character in Dahl's books) and Trunky the Elephant.

Mythical creatures in Burmese folklore

Magan - crocodile-like sea monster with prehensile snout.

Neptunidraco

The "Portomaggiore crocodile" is the most complete specimen of an Italian metriorhynchid to date and the oldest known metriorhynchid.

P. potens

Purranisaurus potens, an extinct Late Jurassic metriorhynchid crocodile species

Papua New Guinean literature

In 1970, Vincent Eri published the first Papua New Guinean novel, The Crocodile.

Polo shirt

As he desired to exude a certain "WASPishness" in his clothes, initially adopting the style of clothiers like Brooks Brothers, J. Press, and "Savile Row"–style English clothing, he prominently included this attire from the "sport of kings" in his line, replete with a logo reminiscent of Lacoste’s crocodile emblem, depicting a polo player and pony.

Rose Moss

A non-fiction book, Shouting at the Crocodile (1990) presents two defendants, Popo Molefe and Mosiuoa Lekota, in the Delmas Treason Trial during the last days of apartheid.

Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring

Among other things he wrote about fossil crocodiles and in 1812 he described Ornithocephalus antiquus now known as Pterodactylus.

Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil

"Das Kleine Krokodil", also known under the title "Schnappi", is the debut single by animated cartoon crocodile, Schnappi, from his first album Schnappi und Seine Freunde.

Senufo Bird

According to Senufo belief, the Hornbill, along with the tortoise, the crocodile, the chameleon, and the serpent - was one of the first living creatures.

Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur

The first volume appeared in 1974, with a set of guidelines appearing under a stylised representation of the s3k crocodile hieroglyph sketched by Professor Wildung.

The Nameless City

In ancient times, the Nameless City was built and inhabited by an unnamed race of reptiles with a body shaped like a cross between a crocodile and a seal with a strange head common to neither, involving a protruding forehead, horns, lack of a nose and an alligator-like jaw.