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Directly after the 11th International Polychaete Conference a group of researchers headed off to Lizard Island Research Station.

One of the preconference workshops was a 5 day intensive course on the Philosophy of Biological Systematics.

Sue Lindsay from our Microscopy & Microanalysis Unit highlighted photographing techniques of small preserved polychaetes.

Remote community on a major shipping route.

Island home - island prison.

A pre-conference workshop. Identification of Invasive Polychaetes started on 1 August.

Our native wars - no longer out of mind.

Today we opened the first public event related to the International Polychaetes Conference.

Since our departure from Darnley Island in late May, the artists at Erub Erwer Meta have been busy making ghost net works for the museum.

Thirty years ago, way back in 1983, 85 people from 15 countries gathered at the Australian Museum to spend a week talking about worms.

In 1883, self-taught naturalist Edgar Waite was only 18 and already a confident and resourceful collector and networker.  

Smoking in Arnhem Land – culture with Asian flavour.

The glimpses of life of forest people.

Edgar Waite began his life-long diary habit at the tender age of eight.

Bark cloths, sailing with outrigger, headhunting and more.