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Warneke, Robert M. (Bob)

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Bob Warneke conducted research on the colony of Australian fur seals at Seal Rocks, Western Port from 1964 to 1991. He was manager of wildlife research at the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Victoria until 1991. From 1991 to 2002 he was a private consultant specialising in marine mammals. In his retirement he continued his personal research interests in areas including the history of whaling and sealing in Australasian and subantarctic waters in his retirement.

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Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 31 July 2018

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This Edition: 2026 February - 1926 Centenaries
Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar - Late summer: late January to late March - season of eels
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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260