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unusual facts about Macleay's Swallowtail


Endiandra discolor

The leaves of Endiandra discolor provide food for the larvae of the Macleay's Swallowtail butterfly.


Alexander Macleay

When the office was linked with the Transport Board after war broke out, Macleay became head of the correspondence department and by 1806 secretary.

Cathedral Rock National Park

This park is lying between the Guy Fawkes River and Macleay Range, and is about six kilometres west of Ebor, New South Wales.

Donald Macleay

His legacy includes Macleay Park, a part of Forest Park in Portland, and Macleay, an unincorporated Oregon community that was renamed in his honor in 1882.

Financial difficulties caused his parents to move to Canada and settle on a farm near Melbourne, Quebec, when Macleay was 16.

Inland with Sturt

Inland with Sturt marked the first film appearance for Rod Taylor, who, although he played George Macleay, was actually related to Charles Sturt through his father; he was Sturt's great-great grandnephew.

John Pidgeon

Key construction projects undertaken by the company are: The Brisbane Club; Waterfront Place; the Brisbane Transit Centre; the Broadbeach Monorail; The Oasis Shopping Centre and Hotel; The Suncorp Metway Building; the Stradbroke and Macleay Towers – Dockside; Cathedral Square; 313 Adelaide Street; and the Bank of Queensland Building.

Ken MacLeay

In 2001, MacLeay was named as a life member of the WACA Ground in Perth for his contributions to cricket.

Macleay Island

In 2007, after a short segment on the Nine television network's nationally broadcast A Current Affair based on the comments made by real estate watcher John Edwards of Residex said that Macleay Island was a "boom suburb" and worth watching by first home buyers.

Macleay Museum

The collections of the Macleay Museum are based largely on the efforts and acquisitions of the Macleays, one of the pre-eminent families in colonial Sydney: Alexander Macleay, William Sharp Macleay and William John Macleay.

Robert Wauch

Robert Wauch died in the Macleay area in 1866, and the Government Gazette published the deeds of his properties, specifying that they should be called Wauchope.

Shaw, Oregon

Shaw was a station in the Waldo Hills between Macleay and Aumsville on the Oregonian Railway (later the Southern Pacific Railroad and today the Willamette Valley Railway).

William Guilfoyle

The family migrated to Sydney in 1853 where William Guilfoyle was privately educated at Lyndhurst College, Glebe where he received botanical instruction by William Woolls, William Sharp MacLeay (1792–1865) and John MacGillivray (1821–1867), who all encouraged him to follow in his father's career.

William John Macleay

Macleay realized that a lot could be done to prevent diseases like typhoid fever and strongly urged the appointment of a government bacteriologist.

William Macleay

William John Macleay (1820-1891), British/Australian zoologist (cousin of William Sharp MacLeay)

William Sharp Macleay

Macleay was interested in the natural history of Australia, the marine fauna around Port Jackson in particular.


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