Bunyip

Origin and tradition

Wemba-Wemba and other Aboriginal communities passed down warnings about deep billabongs inhabited by a nocturnal water being or spirit.

Illustration in this atlas

A seal-like water creature with a doglike face emerges from a swamp. This is one interpretation of a tradition with markedly varied descriptions, rather than a single agreed anatomy.

References and further reading

1. britannica.com — bunyip

These references offer further reading. Accounts and depictions vary; the atlas illustration is interpretive artwork, rather than historical or scientific evidence.