Tunerama hits Australia: 28-01-2008
Australia goes mad for tuna during January, particularly on South Australia Eyre Peninsular where the fish have their very own festival.
Tunerama attracts nearly 25,000 people to the seaside town of Port Lincoln and most come to witness the festival's traditional event - tuna tossing.
Specially frozen tuna that weigh up to nine kilos each are hurled by competitors in an action not dissimilar to the hammer event at the Olympics.
The champion is actually an Olympic competitor as Sean Carlin, a former hammer thrower, managed to throw his frozen fish 37.23 metres.
Tossing takes place on the Saturday and Sunday and the festival also includes tug-of-war competitions and wheat sheaf tossing.
A boat-building race, the slippery pole contest and the beach girl competition complete the line-up of events which keeps the small town buzzing for a period.
The region is known as South Australia Eyre after an English land explorer, Edward John Eyre who went to the area in the 1800s.
His expeditions were crucial in negotiating peace between white settlers and the native aborigines.
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