Subscribe to the Magazine

Home News Phar Lap to stand tall in Wellington

Phar Lap to stand tall in Wellington

By AAP with AG Staff • March 13, 2012

Phar Lap's skeleton and hide on display at the Melbourne Museum in 2010. (Credit: Getty)

Reading Time: < 1 • Print this page

Phar Lap’s skeleton has been remounted in a new more accurate way and put on display in New Zealand.

RELATED STORIES

TAGS new zealand News People & Culture sport

Read Next

An eastern bristlebird standing on a branch in an enclosure.

Bringing back the eastern bristlebird

Eight captive-bred eastern bristlebirds (Dasyornis brachypterus) were recently released into the Border Ranges region of north-eastern New South Wales where they're considered a critically endangered species.

Lisa Blair arrives in Auckland after a record-breaking voyage from Sydney.

World-beater solo yachtswoman Lisa Blair racks up two big sailing records while taking her climate message across the ditch

Breaking world sailing records seems to come naturally to Lisa Blair. Her beaming face and calm but celebratory arrivals in destination ports give little away of the perils, discomforts and sheer loneliness of the epic ocean voyages she completes.

A steam turbine rotor.

Even as the fusion era dawns, Australia is still in the Steam Age

Steam locomotives clattering along railway tracks. Paddle steamers churning down the Murray. Dreadnought battleships powered by steam engines.

Watch Latest Web Stories

Birds of Stewart Island / Rakiura

Endangered fairy-wrens survive Kimberley floods

Australia’s sleepiest species