I anticipate some interest in indegenous canoes here, mostly centred on birchbark and Inuit models. The Aboriginal populations of North Queensland, Australia lived in a monsoon climate, the wet and the dry and the need for canoes was probably transitory as was much of the water. That combined with an often nomadic lifestyle following seasons and food sources based on 60,00 years of tradition and experience meant that a canoe was an item made on the spot for a certain purpose and then abandoned and a new one made when necessary.

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