Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Lord Howe Island Group' has mentioned 'Turtle' in the following places:
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His journal entry for 19 March 1788 noted that "the Supply, in her return, landed at the island she [discovered] in going out, and all were very agreeably surprised to find great numbers of fine turtle on the beach and, on the land amongst the trees, great numbers of fowls very like a guinea hen, and another species of fowl not unlike the landrail in England, and all so perfectly tame that you could frequently take hold of them with your hands but could, at all times, knock down as many as you thought proper, with a short stick. | WIKI |
She brought thirteen large turtle to Port Jackson and many were distributed among the camp and fleet. | WIKI |
Skeleton of an extinct horned turtle (Meiolania platyceps) displayed in the Maritime Museum | WIKI |
[106] In this rock are fossils of bird bones and eggs, land and marine snails, and the extinct endemic horned turtle (Meiolania platyceps) now thought to be an ancient relictual nonswimming tortoise with relatives in South America. | WIKI |