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Bunyip

The bunyip is a creature from the aboriginal mythology of southeastern Australia, said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds and waterholes.

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Characteristics

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Debate over origins

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Early accounts of European settlers

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Bunyip

Characteristics

Debate over origins

Early accounts of European settlers

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In popular culture and fiction

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Bunyip

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Edges133
Triples204
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.014925
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related to Debate over origins · 29
Bunyip → Aboriginal, Aborigines, Another, Australian, Australian Museum, Charles Fenner, Conargo, Darling, Diprotodon, Dr George Bennett, Dromornithidae, He, In, Loxton, Murray, Neil Archbold, Nototherium, Overland Corner, Palorchestes, Pat Vickers-Rich
related to Australian Museum's bunyip of 1847 · 24
Bunyip → At, Australian Museum, Balranald, By July, Custom House, Explorer William Hovell, Immediately, In January, In March, Initial, Kine Pratie, Macleay, Melbourne, Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales, Platibus, Platypus, Professor Owen, Reports, Sydney
related to Stocqueler's sightings and drawings, 1857 · 21
Bunyip → After, Amongst, Bunyip's, Captain, Captain Cadell, Edwin Stocqueler, Goulburn, In, It, McGuire's, Mother, Mr, Murray, Musk Drake, On, One, Stockqueler, Stocqueler, The, The Bunyip
related to Characteristics · 19
Bunyip → Aboriginal, According, Antiquarian Reynell Johns, Ararat, Eugénie Louise McNeil, Fiery Creek, George French Angus, It, Its, Moorundi, Mopoke, Murray, Murray River, Physical, Robert Brough Smyth's Aborigines, The, The Australasian, The Challicum, Victoria
related to In popular culture and fiction · 17
Bunyip → Andrew Lang's The Brown, Anthropological Institute, Australian Humbug, Christian, Clifton Hill, Fairy Book, First, Gawler, Gawler Humbug Society, Gentle Bunyip, House, Journal, Numerous, One, South Australia, The Bunyip, Victoria
related to Early accounts of European settlers · 12
Bunyip → Australia, Australian, During, European, Europeans, Irish Púca, New South Wales, Scholars, South Australia, The, Unfamiliar, Victoria
related to Figure of speech and eponymy · 12
Bunyip → Australia, Australian, Australian English, Australians, Bunyip River, By, In, Liberal Party, Prime Minister Paul Keating, The, Victoria, Westernport Bay
related to William Buckley's account of bunyips, 1852 · 12
Bunyip → Aboriginal, Another, Barwon River, Buckley, Buckley's, He, His, It, Lake Modewarre, Lake Moodewarri, Wathaurong, William Buckley
related to Bunyip · 11
Bunyip → Aboriginal, Aboriginal Australians, Bunjil, Great Man, Some, South-Eastern Australia, The, This, Victoria, Wemba-Wemba, Wergaia
see also · 11
Bunyip → Aboriginal AustraliaUnderwater, Australian, Australian Aboriginal, BigFoot, Bunyip Slipper Imp, Drop, Min, North American, Serpent, Wowee, Yeomans

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australian aboriginal creature australia animal first bunyips like account people long stocqueler also made described water one called victoria early

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Bunyipis acreature from the aboriginal mythology of southeastern Australia0.90text
Bunyipis ashy Australasian bittern0.90text
Bunyipis alarge freshwater seal0.90text
Bunyipis alocal weekly newspaper published in the town of Gawler0.90text
Bunyipis atrue type of Australian Humbug0.90text
Bunyippart oftraditional Aboriginal beliefs and stories throughout Australia0.85text
the Diprotodoninstance ofespecially southern elephant seals and leopard seals.Another suggestion is that the bunyip may be a folk memory of extinct Australian marsupials0.80text
Zygomaturusinstance ofespecially southern elephant seals and leopard seals.Another suggestion is that the bunyip may be a folk memory of extinct Australian marsupials0.80text
Nototheriuminstance ofespecially southern elephant seals and leopard seals.Another suggestion is that the bunyip may be a folk memory of extinct Australian marsupials0.80text
Palorchestes or Thylacoleoinstance ofespecially southern elephant seals and leopard seals.Another suggestion is that the bunyip may be a folk memory of extinct Australian marsupials0.80text
the Bunyip Riverinstance ofincluding place names0.80text
Bunyiprelated to Australian Museum's bunyip of 1847In January0.60section

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