Just because...Why? you might ask. Actually its Bench on Friday posting time, an informal meme of various benches, courtesty of RuneE at http://visualnorway.blogspot.com/ The fish on this bench has a tale to tell. Its a postcard from the Australian Museum Shop online at http://shop.australianmuseum.net.au/. The details read "Ethel King colouring a mounted specimen of a Queensland Groper (Epinephelus lanceolatos) 1926. Australian Museum archival image.

In 1925, the Fiji Government sent some fish to the Australian Museum to be mounted for the New Zealand and South Sea International Exhibition. The largest specimen was the groper over 2 metres long and weighing over 160 Kg. "The fish skin," and I quote from the site, "was fitted over a plaster cast and them coloured by Ethel King, a skilled artist.

Museums and benches are synonomous, and part of the Australian Museum is the Lizard Island Research station, located on the northern Great Barrier Reef, 270 km. north of Cairns in Queensland, facilitating coral reef research and education. On the benches at this Island, much valuable research takes place.
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