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Bungaree
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/trailblazers/bungaree/Born among the heathland, beaches and rainforest pockets of Broken Bay on the New South Wales Central Coast.
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Tim Jarvis AM
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/trailblazers/tim-jarvis-am/Re-enacted the Antarctic journeys of Douglas Mawson and Ernest Shackleton.
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William Bligh
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/trailblazers/william-bligh/Navigated a tiny vessel a distance of 5800 kilometres, charting part of the north-east coast of Australia along the way.
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Greg Mortimer OAM
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/trailblazers/greg-mortimer-oam/The first Australian to reach the summits of Mount Everest and K2 in the Himalaya, and mounts Vinson and Minto in Antarctica.
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Abel Janszoon Tasman
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/trailblazers/abel-janszoon-tasman/The first European to discover Tasmania and confirm Australia as an island continent.
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Jessica Watson OAM
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/trailblazers/jessica-watson-oam/The youngest person to sail solo and unassisted around the world.
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Footbinding
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/footbinding/Chinese folklore attributes the origins of footbinding to a fox who tried to conceal its paws while assuming the human guise of the Shang Empress. Another version suggests that the Empress had a club foot and insisted that all women bind their feet so that hers became the model for beauty.
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The Meaning of Ta Tau - Samoan Tattoing
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/the-meaning-of-ta-tau-samoan-tattoing/The word tatau (tattoo) in Samoan means appropriate, balanced and fitting.
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Tattooing - Earliest examples
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/tattooing-earliest-examples/Tattooed markings on skin and incised markings in clay provide some of the earliest evidence that humans have long practised a wide range of body art.
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Papua New Guinea Scarification
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/papua-new-guinea-scarification/In Papua New Guinea, scarification is usually related to initiation. In the middle Sepik region, it is believed that migrating ancestral crocodiles established human populations.
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