Editing Phantom kangaroo (section)

==New Zealand==
In 1831, after arriving in Australia, two sailors from the ''[[Sydney Packet]]'' reported that they had seen a "giant kangaroo", 30 feet (nine metres) tall, at a small cove in [[Dusky Sound]], South Island. From a small boat, they observed it standing near the treeline, and when they came too close the animal jumped into the water and swam away, leaving a wake extending from one end of the sound to the other.<ref name=Gosset1996>{{cite book|last=Gosset|first=Robyn|title=New Zealand Mysteries|publisher=The Bush Press of New Zealand|isbn=0-908608-73-X|pages=148–149}}</ref>

[[Kawau Island]] in the [[Hauraki Gulf]] has a colony of three species of wallabies descending from a deliberate introduction by [[George Edward Grey|Sir George Grey]], a 19th century [[Governor-General of New Zealand|Governor]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The Hauraki Gulf Marine Park, Part 2|date=3 March 2010|work=Inset to [[The New Zealand Herald]]|pages=12}}</ref>

New Zealand also has a wild population of wallabies in the [[Waimate District]] of South Island that were introduced for hunting in the late 19th century.