Blog archive: November 2013
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Opening up
The recent Corroboree Sydney Festival signals a resurgent interest in Australia’s first peoples.
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Sharing the harbour
What makes Sydney's harbour the most biodiverse in the world? Plunge beneath its murky waters with Museum scientists to find out.
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Mapping our history using Historypin
The Archives has launched an Australian Museum channel on Historypin to showcase our historic photo collections.
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Ghost Net Art: Stopping the Slaughter
Imagine a mindless killing machine half the size of Botany Bay. It's not science fiction but reality for some places in the Torres Strait.
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Ghost Net Art: The Story of Dauma and Garom
The day had started normally enough, sitting around the artists table at the Erub Erwer Meta art centre on Darnley Island...
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Isobel Bennett - Pioneering Marine Biologist
As an intern with the Archives, I have been privileged to discover the amazing life and career of Marine Biologist, Isobel Bennett.
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Feathers of the Gods: On the Director's Wall
An office wall says a lot about the occupant and the organisation, especially if that occupant is the Director of the Australian Museum.
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A Tricky Question About Cicadas
Our collection managers can't know everything, but part of their job is knowing who to ask when they don't have the answer.
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Finding Land Fish in French Polynesia: Black sands, stormy seas and raining fish!
After a successful week of sampling blennies on Moorea, we gathered our gear and boarded the ferry bound for the island of Tahiti.
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Solar-powered Ibis
Satellite transmitters will reveal the inner-city eateries and vacation escapes of Ibis birds.
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Ancient ceremonial stone tool rescued from bulldozer in Papua New Guinea
A beautiful and expertly-flaked stone tool rescued from a house site opens up a world of meaning for a distant, poorly-known period.
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New species of small, fat frog discovered on top of Indochina’s highest peak
Discovered in the cold, wet forest near the top of Mount Fansipan this little frog may already be in trouble.
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Exotic honeybees are the only effective pollinators of a temperate mangrove
Honeybees were introduced shortly after European settlement and now appear to be the only effective pollinators of a native plant species.
