Bunyip
c. 1800 CE – 2026 CEattested
southeastern Australia
- Australian
From Aboriginal traditions of a creature in swamps and billabongs, recorded by colonists in the 1840s who then went looking for it and found bones they misread.
Known for
- swamps and billabongs
- a bellowing cry
- colonial misidentification
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.