bushwalker
nounEtymology From bush + walker.
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Australia, New Zealand A hiker or backpacker.
- In the following years the Kanangra country became the object of a mild form of cult worship as bushwalkers discovered its many delights[…].1997, Peter Prineas, Henry Gold, Wild Places: Wilderness in Eastern New South Wales, page 66:
- There are numerous stories of bushwalkers spending several hours up a tree waiting for a wild pig to go away.2007, Claire Smith, Heather Burke, Digging It Up Down Under: A Practical Guide to Doing Archaeology in Australia, page 98:
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- The anthropologist Lisa Palmer has written about an analogous but different situation in her study of non-indigenous bushwalkers in Kakadu. She writes very eloquently about the conflicts that have emerged in Kakadu where the Bininj/Mungguy have attempted to limit bushwalker access to the stone country in particular.2008, Chris Healy, Forgetting Aborigines, page 191:
- Related terms
- bushwalking, bushwhacker