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4 unusual facts about Aboriginal Tasmanian


Aboriginal Tasmanian

Tasmanian Aboriginal skulls were particularly sought internationally for studies into craniofacial anthropometry.

Commenting in 1899 on Robinson's claims of success, anthropologist Henry Ling Roth wrote:While Robinson and others were doing their best to make them into a civilised people, the poor blacks had given up the struggle, and were solving the difficult problem by dying.

Little is known of their seasonal movements although it is believed that four of the five bands moved through Oyster Bay territory along the Derwent River to reach their coastal camps near Pitt Water.

Hunter Island Penguin

The Hunter Island Penguin (Tasidyptes hunteri) is an extinct penguin, subfossil remains of which were found in a Holocene Aboriginal midden at Stockyard Site on Hunter Island, in Bass Strait 5 km off the western end of the north coast of Tasmania, Australia.



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