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The Challicum bunyip, an outline image of a bunyip carved by Aborigines into the bank of Fiery Creek, near Ararat, Victoria, was first recorded by The Australasian newspaper in 1851.

According to the report, the bunyip had been speared after killing an Aboriginal man.

Antiquarian Reynell Johns claimed that until the mid-1850s, Aboriginal people made a " habit of visiting the place annually and retracing the outlines of the figure the bunyip which is about 11 paces long and 4 paces in extreme breadth.