Australian Basketball Team

Australian Basketball Team

Australian Basketball Team

Australian Basketball Team

Australian Basketball Team

The Kangaroo is one of Australia’s most famous native animals and has become an iconic symbol representing aspects of Australian life and culture, including being featured on the Australian Coat of arms, currency and postage stamps.

The Kangaroo family is indigenous to Australia and New Guinea but surprisingly there are several feral populations from introduced species to New Zealand, Hawaii and Great Britain.

The word kangaroo is attributed to Captain James Cook, who on the August 1770 (at that time a Lieutenant) at Cooktown, Australia made note of the local aboriginal word ‘gangurru’ Read the rest of this entry »