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''Moondyne'' is a novel written in 1879 by John Boyle O'Reilly, and later made into a feature film of the same name. Moondyne can also refer to: *Moondyne Joe (Joseph Johns, c. 1826–1900), a bushranger from Western Australia *Moondyne Cave, a cave in the south-west of Western Australia near Augusta discovered and used by Johns *Moondyne Nature Reserve Moondyne Nature Reserve is a reserve located within the Avon Valley National Park, in the Avon Valley, Western Australia. Considered and reviewed in 1979 and 1980, it was established in 1981. A guide was published in 1984 as to the features wi ...

Moondyne
''Moondyne'' is an 1879 novel by John Boyle O'Reilly. It is loosely based on the life of the Western Australian convict escapee and bushranger Moondyne Joe. It is believed to be the first ever fictional novel set in Western Australia. In 1913, Melbourne film director W. J. Lincoln made a silent film of the same name. Background O'Reilly was a Fenian revolutionary who was transported as a convict to Western Australia. During his time in Western Australia's penal system. After thirteen months in Western Australia, O'Reilly escaped the colony on board the American whaling ship ''Gazelle''. He arrived in America in 1869 and settled in Boston, where he established himself as a respected journalist, newspaper editor, novelist and poet, and later helped orchestrate the 1876 Catalpa rescue of six Fenian convicts from Western Australia. Around the time O'Reilly was stationed in Bunbury in 1868, he had begun to hear about the exploits of convict Joseph Bolitho Johns aka Moondyne Joe, ...
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Moondyne Joe
Joseph Johns ( February 1826 – 13 August 1900), better known as Moondyne Joe, was an English convict and Western Australia's best-known bushranger. Born into poor and relatively difficult circumstances, he became something of a petty criminal robber with a strong sense of self-determination. He is remembered as a person who had escaped multiple times from prison. Biography Child Hood Born in Cornwall, England, around 1826 and raised as Protestant. He was baptised in the Parish Church at Wendron, married at Johnston Memorial Congregational church at Fremantle, and buried in the Anglican section of Fremantle Cemetery. Despite claims that he was Roman Catholic, there is no evidence for this and would be incredibly unusual in Cornwall. He was the third of three children of blacksmith Thomas Johns (1799–1833) and his wife Mary Bolitho (1804–1860). Joe was a tall man with black hair and hazel-coloured eyes, and it is likely that he contracted smallpox in his youth as, lat ...
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Moondyne Cave
Moondyne Cave is a karst cave in the South West region of Western Australia. It is located on Caves Road, north of Augusta. It has a pothole entrance, a vertical extent of , and a length of , with some large dry chambers. Moondyne Cave was discovered in 1881 by Joseph Bolitho Johns, who had formerly been the bushranger known as Moondyne Joe. Republished in 1998 by Carlisle, Western Australia: Hesperian Press. . It was first opened for public viewing in 1911. Guided tours ended in 1959, but it was reopened in 1992 after undergoing restoration. See also * List of caves in Australia This is a list of caves in Australia. Show caves New South Wales * Abercrombie Caves * Ashford Caves * Bendethera Caves * Borenore Caves * Bungonia Caves * Careys Caves * Cliefden Caves * Jenolan Caves ( List of caves within the Jenolan Cave ... References {{WesternAustralia-geo-stub Show caves in Australia Limestone caves Caves of Western Australia Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park ...
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