Coorong Characters
David Unaipon
Getting to the heart. While researching the life and achievements of a former local Coorong man, David Unaipon, I was delighted to read a comment that referred to Mr Unaipon as an excellent singer. The Post, a contribution to a Meningie History facebook page,...
The Bird Man Of The Coorong
Originally hailing from County Limerick in Ireland. Born three months premature in 1864, Liam (John) Francis Peggotty, rode into the history books on, would you believe it, an ostrich.
That Boomerang really did take off!
When David Unaipon was quoted in the Daily Herald back in 1914 as, envisioning a design for an aeroplane that would take off vertically, he had in mind the “application of the boomerang principle” Unaipon, Daily Herald 1914.
What exactly did David Unaipon mean by this?
