Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Drop bears are one of Australia's most mysterious yet dangerous creatures. They normally live out in the Bush, away from human habitation. But can you also find them much closer to home, even in a big city like Melbourne?
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MORE INFORMATION
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/drop-bear/
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2021/04/drop-bears-target-tourists-study-says/
My website: philipmallis.com
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I acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which this video was filmed, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people. I pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and their extensive and continuing connection to land, water and country.
Drop bears are one of Australia's most mysterious yet dangerous creatures. They normally live out in the Bush, away from human habitation. But can you also find them much closer to home, even in a big city like Melbourne?
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MORE INFORMATION
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/drop-bear/
https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2021/04/drop-bears-target-tourists-study-says/
My website: philipmallis.com
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I acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which this video was filmed, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people. I pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and their extensive and continuing connection to land, water and country.




![The amazing gold town of Maryborough!
Maryborough has been famous for its station for decades. But there is also a lot more to see and do, including a lot of interesting local history! Everything from indigenous heritage sites to abandoned gold mining machinery left in the middle of the bush.
0:00 Intro
0:58 Maryborough Railway Station
3:34 Maryborough Flour Mill
4:14 Soldiers Memorial Plot
5:52 Old mine shafts
7:15 Aboriginal rock wells
9:04 Battery Dam
11:26 Maryborough town
12:42 Final thoughts
13:36 Outro
My website: https://philipmallis.com
Music: Lobby Time Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
SOURCES AND CREDITS
Map source: © Openstreetmap contributors, 2023
Washing out a good prospect, ca.1858. State Library of Victoria. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/92961
Stamp battery remnants. Goldfields Guide. https://www.goldfieldsguide.com.au/location-image/dsc-9707/8791/1200/1200-image.jpg
Stamp batteries. Goldfields Guide. 23 August 2021. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3037401293244616&set=pcb.3037423129909099
Dangers of Falling Mineshafts. Country Fire Authority News. October 2018. via Goldfields Guide. https://www.goldfieldsguide.com.au/blog/30/dangers-of-mine-shafts-in-the-victorian-goldfields
Death shaft to be filled (1965, March 23). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 4. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131762751
CNFREE. 2024. https://www.cnfreereagent.com/wp-content/themes/list-9.4-1/img/dui.jpg
Pratt, Charles Daniel, [Maryborough with station in foreground at left]. ca.1926. State Library of Victoria. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/20162
I acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which this video was filmed, the Dja Dja Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people. I pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging and their extensive historical connection to land, water and country. The amazing gold town of Maryborough!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fjPuVnjrwRA/mqdefault.jpg)





