The Kongouro from New Holland (1772) by George Stubbs, commissioned after Captain James Cook returned from Australia with the word and pelts from the antipodean animal. Picture: National Maritime Museum
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Myth busting: where the word ‘kangaroo’ really came from – spoiler, it doesn’t mean ‘I don’t know’
Little did the European settlers know, but Australia’s indigenous peoples spoke more than 250 languages
The Kongouro from New Holland (1772) by George Stubbs, commissioned after Captain James Cook returned from Australia with the word and pelts from the antipodean animal. Picture: National Maritime Museum
