View of Seal Bay and large nest on Hartik Island, near Melbourne, South Australia. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Illustration copied from Nicolas Petit plate in Peron's "Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes," 1807.

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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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