Kangaroo Island

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Kangaroo Island
Im a kangaroo!

• By Krista and Mel

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Boundaries

• South Australia has boundaries with other states
  on the west, north, east and on the south
• Kangaroo Island is 140km wide
• It is Australias third largest island

Kangaroo island
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Organic honey producers, Peter and Louise Davis,
extract around 100 tonnes of organic honey a year
from 1000 hives under the stringent guidelines of
NASAA certification. The majority of their honey
is packaged for major brand, Leabrook Farms with
exports to Japan and USA. Being one of the first,
and now amongst the biggest, organic honey
producers in Australia, Peter is a leading voice
in the honey production industry in Australia and
is pro-active in protecting and promoting the
Ligurian Bee heritage.
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Cultural

• Australian Aboriginal art is the oldest living
• art tradition in the world, with paintings in
• rock shelters dating back 20,000 years. The art
• includes naturalistic paintings of human, plant
• and animal figures, as well as non-naturalistic,
• or "abstract" designs with concentric circles,
  "u" shapes, and lines.

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Naturalistic Art Style
A Painting by an aboriginal artist.

• The naturalistic style, predominant in Arnhem
• Land in northern Australia, is often
  characterized
• by "X-ray" art, where the internal organs of
• animals are depicted. The abstract style,
  predominant
• in central Australia, originates from sacred
• designs used in ceremonies. These designs,
  originally
• for body painting, ground paintings, and carved
  on
• sacred stones and boards, are now painted on
  canvas.

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Aboriginal Artists

• Willy Tjungurrayi
• Janet Long Nakamarra
• Jimmy Wululu
• Dr. George
• Pansy Napangarti

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Art relations

• Much of Aboriginal art relates to stories of the
• Dreamtime. This Dreamtime is the Creation Period
• in Aboriginal belief, when important Ancestral
• Beings formed the land and created the people,
• plants and animals. These Ancestral Beings, often
  
• depicted in the art, may take human, animal,
  plant
• or combined forms, and taught the people their
• laws and ceremonies.

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Jumbuck Sheep Shearing

• With over a million of merino sheep, this ranges
  as the no. 1 industry on the island. Small
  shepherd dogs (64 kB), the Kelpies, get together
  the sheep, being much bigger than them. In the
  small gates, the dogs jump on top of the sheep
  standing closely together. This is how they urge
  the sheep into the direction as given by the
  shepherd.

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Wildlife

• In Parndana Wildlife Park we got to see emus (78
  kB) next to the obligatory koalas and kangaroos.
  It really is most impressive to have such giant
  birds looking you right into the eye.

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Citation Page

• Information and picture on slide 2 comes from
  www.auinfo.com, and www.reisealbum.de
• Information and picture on slide 3 comes from
  www.goodfoodkangarooisland.com
• Information and pictures on slides 4,5,6, and 7
  provided by http//www.aaia.com.au/
• Information on slide 8 provided by
  www.reisealbum.de/.../ australien/kangaroo_e.htm