McKenzie, Kim
Two-time Australian national surfing champion, from Mooloolaba, Queensland, who found international fame in the mid-1970s as the "shark girl," thanks to her day job as a shark culler in the waters near her Sunshine Coast home. McKenzie was born (1951) in Sydney, the second of four children, to a ship-builder and fisherman father; the family moved to Mooloolaba, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, whe...
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Kim McKenzie, 1968Subscribe to view
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Kim McKenzie, 1968
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Kim McKenzie, 1974. Photo: Martin Tullemans
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Kim McKenzie, Hawaii, 1975
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Kim McKenzie
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Kim McKenzie, 1974. Photo: John Grissim
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Kim McKenzie. Photo: John Grissim