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230 photos and 19 illustrations tagged turtle, from 12 members of Flickr Commons.

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• australia
• beach
• sea
• 1930s
• worldwarii
• germany
• travel
• newguinea
• market
• hut
• canoe
• java
• papuanewguinea
• oskarspeck
• postcards
• queensland
• turtleriding
• turtlehunting
• publicdomain
• bldigital
• mechanicalcurator
• vol0
• pubplacelondon
• sherlocknet:category=organism

Members using this tag

• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 190 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 27 photos & illustrations
• British Library 18 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 3 photos & illustrations
• The Field Museum Library 2 photos & illustrations
• Florida Memory 2 photos & illustrations
• Smithsonian Institution 2 photos & illustrations
• California Historical Society 1 photo / illustration
• SDASM Archives 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Medicine 1 photo / illustration
• U.S. National Archives 1 photo / illustration
• Australian War Memorial collection 1 photo / illustration

Conversations

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Tourists on a sandy beach, two seated on sea turtles

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

• ~ WessexWill ~ said:

  my god the ultimate in bad taste.

• Bhavpreet Singh said:

  poor turtles

• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:

  [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Thanks for this article! We have previously discussed here starting a file on 'Politically Incorrect Moments from History', and I think turtle-riding would be top of the list. It doesn't sound any more pleasant (for the turtle) in the article, especially the part where they collected all the eggs up?! I'm looking to do a blog on this in the next couple of weeks, so will post it here :)

• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:

  [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] New on the blog : Turtle riding and the Greatest Liar on Earth!.

• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:

  [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Ah so awkward! That's article really demonstrates the mix of tourism and scientific expeditions that allowed turtle riding to become popular. Fascinating!

Postcard to Oskar Speck from unknown sender

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

• hanseatic said:

  This post card does show Hamburg City Hall.

Young woman sitting astride a turtle

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

• dolly doolittle said:

  i just hope the turtle wasn't hurt!

• Harmonious Sound said:

  Funny !

• High Eggs said:

  I used to do this as a child, in the Indian Ocean off Onslow. Without the harness.

• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:

  Sarah Brabazon It certainly stopped a while ago on the Great Barrier Reef :) We have some other items in the collection regarding turtle riding and racing. An interesting past-time of the past...

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