Harriet (tortoise), the Glossary
Harriet (formerly Harry; – 23 June 2006) was a Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis niger, specifically a western Santa Cruz tortoise C. n. porteri) who had an estimated age of 175 years at the time of her death in Australia.[1]
Table of Contents
32 relations: Adwaita, Anna Crichton, Australia Zoo, Beerwah, Queensland, Charles Darwin, City Botanic Gardens, Floreana Island, Galápagos Islands, Galápagos tortoise, Harry Oakman, HMS Beagle, Honolulu Zoo, John Clements Wickham, Jonathan (tortoise), Julia Golding, List of longest-living organisms, Mareeba, NBC News, Newstead House, Brisbane, Queensland Museum, Robert FitzRoy, San Cristóbal Island, Santa Cruz Island (Galápagos), Santiago Island (Galápagos), Saturday Night Live, Saturday Night Live season 49, Second voyage of HMS Beagle, Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin, Tom, Dick and Harry, Tu'i Malila, Western Santa Cruz tortoise.
- 1830 animal births
- 2006 animal deaths
- Individual tortoises
Adwaita
Adwaita (from, meaning "one and only" in Sanskrit) (– 22 March 2006), also spelled Addwaita, was a male Aldabra giant tortoise that lived in the Alipore Zoological Gardens of Kolkata, India. Harriet (tortoise) and Adwaita are 2006 animal deaths and individual tortoises.
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Anna Crichton
Anna Crichton (born 1957) is a New Zealand illustrator, cartoonist and ceramicist.
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Australia Zoo
Australia Zoo is a zoo in the Australian state of Queensland on the Sunshine Coast near Beerwah/Glass House Mountains.
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Beerwah, Queensland
Beerwah is a rural town and locality in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.
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City Botanic Gardens
The City Botanic Gardens (formerly the Brisbane Botanic Gardens) is a heritage-listed botanic garden on Alice Street, Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Floreana Island
Floreana Island (Isla Floreana) is a southern island in Ecuador's Galápagos Archipelago.
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Galápagos Islands
The Galápagos Islands (Islas Galápagos) are an archipelago of volcanic islands in the Eastern Pacific, located around the Equator west of the mainland of South America.
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Galápagos tortoise
The Galápagos tortoise or Galápagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis niger) is a very large species of tortoise in the genus Chelonoidis (which also contains three smaller species from mainland South America).
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Harry Oakman
Henry Octave Cyril Vereecke (4 April 1906 – 16 June 2002), better known as Harry Oakman, was one of Australia's foremost gardening authorities and a pioneer of Australian architectural landscaping.
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HMS Beagle
HMS Beagle was a 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, one of more than 100 ships of this class.
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Honolulu Zoo
The Honolulu Zoo is a zoo in Queen Kapiʻolani Park in Honolulu, Hawaiokinai.
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John Clements Wickham
John Clements Wickham (21 November 17986 January 1864) was a Scottish explorer, naval officer, magistrate and administrator. Harriet (tortoise) and John Clements Wickham are pre-Separation Queensland.
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Jonathan (tortoise)
Jonathan (hatched) is a Seychelles giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea hololissa), a subspecies of the Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea). Harriet (tortoise) and Jonathan (tortoise) are individual tortoises.
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Julia Golding
Julia Golding (born 1969), pen names Joss Stirling and Eve Edwards, is a British novelist best known for her Cat Royal series and The Companions Quartet.
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List of longest-living organisms
This is a list of the longest-living biological organisms: the individual(s) (or in some instances, clones) of a species with the longest natural maximum life spans.
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Mareeba
Mareeba is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Mareeba in Far North Queensland, Australia.
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NBC News
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.
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Newstead House, Brisbane
Newstead House is Brisbane's oldest surviving residence and is located on the Breakfast Creek bank of the Brisbane River, in the northern Brisbane suburb of Newstead, in Queensland, Australia. Harriet (tortoise) and Newstead House, Brisbane are pre-Separation Queensland.
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Queensland Museum
The Queensland Museum Kurilpa is the state museum of Queensland, dedicated to natural history, cultural heritage, science and human achievement.
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Robert FitzRoy
Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy (5 July 1805 – 30 April 1865) was an English officer of the Royal Navy and a scientist.
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San Cristóbal Island
San Cristóbal Island (Isla San Cristóbal), also known as Chatham Island, is the easternmost island in the Galápagos archipelago, as well as one of the oldest geologically.
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Santa Cruz Island (Galápagos)
Santa Cruz Island (Isla Santa Cruz), also known as Indefatigable Island and by other names, is the most populous and second-largest island in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador.
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Santiago Island (Galápagos)
Santiago Island is one of the Galápagos Islands.
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Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC and streams on Peacock.
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Saturday Night Live season 49
The forty-ninth season of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live premiered on October 14, 2023, during the 2023–24 television season, with host Pete Davidson and musical guest Ice Spice, and concluded on May 18, 2024 with host Jake Gyllenhaal and musical guest Sabrina Carpenter.
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Second voyage of HMS Beagle
The second voyage of HMS Beagle, from 27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836, was the second survey expedition of HMS ''Beagle'', made under her newest commander, Robert FitzRoy.
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Steve Irwin
Stephen Robert Irwin (22 February 19624 September 2006), known as "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian zookeeper, conservationist, television personality, wildlife educator, and environmentalist.
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Terri Irwin
Terri Raines Irwin (née Raines, born July 20, 1964) is an American-Australian conservationist, television personality, author and zookeeper who is the owner of Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Queensland.
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Tom, Dick and Harry
The phrase "Tom, Dick, and Harry" is a placeholder for unspecified people.
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Tu'i Malila
Tu'i Malila (1777 – 16 May 1966) was a tortoise that Captain James Cook was traditionally said to have given to the royal family of Tonga. Harriet (tortoise) and Tu'i Malila are individual tortoises.
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Western Santa Cruz tortoise
The western Santa Cruz tortoise (Chelonoidis niger porteri) is a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise endemic to Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos.
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See also
1830 animal births
- Dash (spaniel)
- Harriet (tortoise)
2006 animal deaths
- Adwaita
- Androscoggin Creature
- Apollo (dog)
- Bear JJ1
- Bubba (fish)
- Dewey Readmore Books
- Downlands Cancara
- Fred the Undercover Kitty
- Ganimedes
- Gita (elephant)
- Harriet (tortoise)
- Humphrey (cat)
- Luna (orca)
- Mancs (dog)
- Matilda (chicken)
- Ming (clam)
- Moose (dog)
- Noble Flaire
- Osama bin Laden (elephant)
- Pogo (gorilla)
- Red Wolf (bull)
- River Thames whale
- Utter (horse)
- Wiarton Willie
Individual tortoises
- Adwaita
- Diego (tortoise)
- Harriet (tortoise)
- Jonathan (tortoise)
- Lonesome George
- Lord Fairfax (turtle)
- Mr Turpen
- Timothy (tortoise)
- Tu'i Malila
- Zond 5
- Zond 7
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_(tortoise)
Also known as Darwin's tortoise, Harriet (turtle), Harriet the Tortoise.