- General George S. Patton, Jr. 1  In the past ten years, the M1 Garand, regardless of condition, has become a very hot collectorsâ item and sound financial investment. 2  Over the past 65 years, most M1 rifles have been arsenal rebuilt, refinished, rebarreled or repaired at least once and often several times.
On a world scale The Australian Pelican is found throughout Australia, except in the very dry middle (desert region), Papua New Guinea and parts of Indonesia (eg Sulawesi) and sometimes in New Zealand and some Pacific Islands close to Australia.elicans as a whole are big birds with a very large wingspan, large beaks and are very well known One of the reason such a big bird can fly is that its skeleton is very light (10% of their weight).
True possums are found only in Australia and some of the islands of Oceania. They are quite different to the North American opossum. Possums live in trees hollows and logs in their natural habitat, which is bushland, wet sclerophyll forest and tall eucalypt forest, and temperate rainforest.Possums are also found in farming and urban areas within Australia.he possums of Australia, whose name is derived from a similarity to the Virginia Opossum, are also marsupials, but of the order Diprotodontia. From the Opossum Society of the US: The name opossum is derived from an Algonquian Indian word apasum, meaning white animal.