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History of Australia’s Muslim cameleers

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From 1860, 20,000 camels and their handlers from Afghanistan and Pakistan were shipped to Australia.

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Nathan Rodriguez

18 Jul 2010

That's very unexpected, I thought camels were an exclusivity of east asian desertic areas. Nice to know that they helped in the early development of Australia. Report

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