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Tantanoola Tiger
Title : Tantanoola Tiger Tantanoola Tiger
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Creator : Heather Williamson
Place Of Creation : WA
Date of creation : 1895
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In 1895 two men decided to both shoot the Tantanoola tiger - one being a man called Donavon and Daniel Skipworth- and the community had offered a shotgun or the stuffed tiger.

Donavan took the tiger and it was placed in the hotel -Skipworth the shotgun which is still licensed and belongs to the Skipworth family.


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Place : South Australia
Region : South East
Further reading :

Bonney, Neville. The Tantanoola Tiger, Blackwood, SA: Lynton Publications, 1976

'The Tantanoola Tiger: shot by Mr. T. Donovan: Declared to be a wolf',The Border Watch, 24 August 1895, p. 2

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