2015 $10 Kangaroo Explorer's First Sightings 1/10oz Gold Proof CoinTo early Australian settlers, kangaroos were a curiosity. They were depicted in words and artworks which seem inaccurate today but are filled with the beauty of these animals capturing peoples imaginations. Woodthorpes hand coloured engraving was published in George Barringtons A Voyage to Botany Bay, where he described kangaroos as, about the size of a common deer, of a dark tan colour its hind legs are much longer than the fore, and with them they