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This is a list of fatal shark attacks in Australia. The Australian Shark-Incident Database has recorded that between 1791 and April 2018 there were 237 fatal shark attacks in Australia. [ 1 ] In the two years of 2020 and 2021 there were 11 fatal shark attacks in Australia.
New South Wales saw the most shark attacks between 1990 and 1999 with 73 attacks out of a total of 186 incidents that were reported. Queensland experienced 43 total attacks, Western Australia saw 35 attacks, South Australia had 20 attacks, Victoria had 12 attacks, Tasmania experienced two attacks, and Northern Territory had only one reported ...
Many of South Australia's fatal shark attacks have been attributed to the Great white shark. A total of 24 people have been killed by sharks in South Australian waters since the establishment of the colony in 1836. Prior to 2014, there had been 82 recorded shark attacks in South Australia. 20 of those have involved a single fatality. Victims ...
Sydney, Australia — A shark bit and killed a 17-year-old girl swimming off an eastern Australian island on Monday, officials said, in the country's third reported fatal attack in just over five ...
A surfer is fighting for his life in the hospital after he was attacked by a shark off Australia’s east coast, police said Friday.
Police said emergency crews in Australia continued are scouring ocean waters for a surfer who disappeared beneath the surface after likely being attacked by a shark. Just after 7 p.m. local time ...
The brown snake is not the most venomous Australian snake, but it has caused the most deaths. [1]Wildlife attacks in Australia occur every year from several different native species, [2] [3] including snakes, spiders, freshwater and saltwater crocodiles, various sharks, cassowaries, kangaroos, stingrays and stonefish and a variety of smaller marine creatures such as bluebottles, blue-ringed ...
A shark fatally attacked a swimmer just outside Sydney on Wednesday in the first such deadly encounter near Australia's cultural hub in nearly 60 years,