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Another giant fossil footprint, identical to the Penrith and Bathurst examples and measuring 61 cm long by 46 cm wide across the toes, was found near Townsville, Queensland, in 1952. More fossilized giant manlike footprints of these dimensions have been found in the Mount Isa district of Queensland. In the same region, according to Aborigines, a race of monsterous four-to-five-metre-tall giant men and women-the “Kalkadoons’’-once lived during the Dreamtime. These monsters are reminiscent of the “Illankanpanka” of Rockhampton, Queensland, Aboriginal lore- 10-to-12-metre-tall giant beings. Are all these monster hominids representative of a single race? Given Aboriginal size exaggeration over vast distances, there nonetheless exists some truly monstrous stone implements, such as a number found sometime ago on a property outside Rockhampton, that are far, far larger and heavier than any I have found near Bathurst. Monster hominids of the six-to-eight-meter-tall variety could help explain some of the truly unbeliev- able large manlike fossil footprints to be covered in this chapter. Were they from outside Australia? Or, as Aborigines claim, did they originate on this continent? Townsville Aborigines claim the huge fossil tracks found there in 1925 was made by a member of the “Narragun” race. Roper River {Northern territory} Aborigines have left rock carvings of giant-sized footprints, measur- ing up to 38 centimeters and more in length., which represent those made by the legendary giant “Nagarun” people who, during the Dreamtime walked from the east coast of Amhem Land down the Wilton River to the Roper, and then eastward to the Borroloola in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Prehistoric ochre cave art in Arnhem Land depicts giant marsupials, among other animals. “When giant fellas alive, them big animals still bin walkabouts this country. White men say they all dead, but we savvy one place where him still live. Ground shake when he walk. He eat peo- eer ples Similar traditions are built around the charcoal painting of two five-metre-tall figures depicted upon the side of a rock overhang near Townsville, representing two I]lankanpanka giant men who wandered mountains thereabouts in the long ago Dreamtime. Orange NSW South-west of Orange, NSW, embedded in a 3.6-metre by 6.6 metre lump of solid mudstone is an appar- ent giant manlike footprint, an astounding 1.6 metres long by one metre wide across the toes. The ques- tion is whether the footprint is an actual fossilized track or an example of ancient weathered rock art depicting a footprint of the Bulloo, the giant men and woman known to the Aborigines of western New South Wales in ancient times. Apart from the fossil footprints of manlike beings, there are also fossil tracks of giant creatures that appear more ape-like than manlike. Could these tracks be those of Gigantopithecus, the giant manlike ape that roamed mainland Asia and Java half a million years ago? Much smaller, although still quite large ape-like tracks are preserved in mudstone near Jenolan Caves south-west of Katoomba and resem- ble the much larger Gigantopithecus-like footprint fossils. But how are footprints fossilized? Scientists have demonstrated that most footprint fossils have been preserved through the action of volcanic eruptions, a layer of ash covering the tracks to cool and solidify them quickly, thus protecting them over thousands of years, weathering disintegrated the solidified vol- canic ash covering to expose the now fossilized tracks. The problem with dating many tracks is in deter- mining exactly when volcanic eruptions ceased in the areas where fossil footprints have been found. 297 Appendix D: Scientific Evidence Townsville-Rockhampton Queensland Wullagun, a tribal elder, once described them: Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation