Crocodile hunting, North Queensland, postcard. Murray Views Collection, Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

Rene Henri, founder of the Australian Crocodile Shooters’ Club, also wrote a children’s book featuring crocodile hunting.

Collection of Museum Victoria

Modern firearms allowed large animals to be killed with some reliability, although at times crocodile hunters found themselves hauling in animals that were only stunned.

Collection of the National Archives of Australia

Dulice Campbell, with two crocodiles at Sunday Gully, North Queensland, c1950. While crocodile hunting was widely perceived as adventurous, dangerous, and macho some women participated.

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The killing of large crocodiles was a noteworthy event throughout the colonial period.

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Crocodiles are a notable feature of life in North Queensland, but despite their fearsome reputation, their numbers have been curtailed by human activities, from hunting to tourism.

Cooking turtle, Torres Strait, 1958. Slide by Harry Hyndman, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

Copyright © Peter Hyndman and the Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland

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