Jewel Sea

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By Peter Gilmore

Published 2014

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AUSTRALIA IS SURROUNDED BY SEA. ITS UNIQUE AND DIVERSE MARINE LIFE PLAYS A MAJOR PART IN IDENTIFYING WHAT AUSTRALIAN CUISINE IS ALL ABOUT.

TASMANIAN GALAXY SQUID / ENOPLOTEUTHIS GALAXIAS
HARVEST / WINTER

I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror — The wide brown land for me!

DOROTHEA MACKELLAR, ‘My Country’

Australia is surrounded by sea. Its unique and diverse marine life plays a major part in identifying what Australian cuisine is all about. The words ‘girt by sea’ appear in our national anthem; and ‘our land abounds in nature’s gifts of beauty rich and rare’.