Australia's endearing wildlife.

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Coastal Taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus) The venom delivered in a single Taipan bite is enough to kill up to 12,000 guinea pigs. This is the largest venomous snake in Australia and is one of the only species known to give multiple bites AND deliver increased amounts of venom in subsequent bites. Before anti venom was available 100% of bites were fatal. They are alert snakes that are good at avoiding human contact.

This snake is a taipan, and very venomous. Keep away. They have been known to chase and attack people.

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Original Australians, billions of trillions of ants. Careful not to let any ant climb into your computer or you will never be bug free.Aussie mozzies are so big they can band together to lift up a sleeping sunbather and fly him to a treetop and suck out his blood. You will sometimes see a shrivelled up body of some unfortunate Aussie high up in the branches of a gumtree calling weakly for a beer.

"Throw me a Foster's mate. The mossies are terrible and I've got ants in me pants.".

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(above) The Goanna, misnamed for another species of lizard (iguana). The early settlers in Australia on the brink of strarvation learned from the aborigines that it was a good source of "tucker" (food) and tasted like chicken.

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Land Down Under(press) William Nash was a marine private on the First Fleet,. Carol Baxter writes - I thought that you might be interested to know that I am writing a biographical history of this family. My website with further information is as follows:http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/~aashmore Regards, William Nash came to Australia as a Marine with the First Fleet 1788 William and Mariah's first child, William, was baptised on Sunday 25th May 1788 A wedding was celebrated at St Phillip's, Sydney, on 13 February 1789, between William Nash, a marine, and Maria Haynes, a convict, in the presence of Elizabeth Gratten and Samuel Barnes (Chaplain's clerk) Mariah Haynes is not listed in John Cobley's 'Crimes of the First Fleet Convicts' By 1803 William & Maria had separated, and she took the children with her. Maria later became associated with two other men, Robert Guy and in 1816, with William Neale.
6 Children	1. William Nash born on 25 May 1788, buried on Friday 19th June 1789, a marine's child. 2. John Nash baptised 15 Jan 1792 (a family source names him William) 3. Mary Nash born 2 March 1793 and baptised 2 April 4. William Nash born 27 March 1795 and baptised 4 May 5. George Nash born 26 July 1797 6. Sarah Nash was born 16 Nov 1798
6. Sarah Nash 16 Nov 1798 wed on the 15th January 1814 at St John's, Parramatta, to JohnWilliams (a convict), 13 children Introduction || Pre-Colonial Australia || The Convict Era || Colonial Pastoral, Mining and Maritime Frontiers Demand and Supply in Urban Prostitution || 'Cleaning Up The Streets' || Contagious Diseases Legislation 'Bludgers' and 'White Slavers' || The Twentieth Century || Resistance || Other Factors || Conclusion || References Botany Bay as a Penal Colony First Fleet Resources The First Fleet Royal Admiral 1792 Old Sydney Burial Ground 1792 - 1820 1798 Governor Hunter Assignment Report - Women Convicts Facebook - Early Colony history of NSW and Norfolk Island 1788 - 1820