Wallabies: Plentiful on island, By Ruth Gooch

Both pademelons and swamp wallabies were plentiful on Phillip Island in the mid-nineteenth century,

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Wallabies: Plentiful on island, By Ruth Gooch
This picture painted in the 1860’s by John Black Henderson, brother of island pioneer Georgianna McHaffie, shows two wallabies alongside the Rhyll Swamp where the Cowes Rhyll Road is now. The picture is from the State Library of New South Wales and is on the Trove web site.

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