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William Blandowski
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                             WILLLIAM BLANDOWSKI  
BLANDOWSKI CAIRN

This cairn is on the site at Merbein's Chaffey Landing where Blandowski, the Victorian Government Zoologist, and his assistant Gerard Krefft, established a camp from April to December in 1857.


Aided by the Nyeri Nyeri people, who identified the area as ‘Mondellimin’, they assembled a large and significant collection of over 17,000 terrestrial and aquatic animals from the region.


​The Mildura Rural City Council and the Merbein District Historical Society erected the cairn in 2007.

After one hundred and fifty years, William Blandowski finally received recognition as a significant pioneer in natural history collection and classification. 
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 Blandowski also meticulously observed and recorded the daily life of the local indigenous peoples.
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    • E. J. Kenny
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