Tantanoola, a small town 16 km to the north-west of Mount Gambia is within the easy reach of the Canunda National Park. The town gets its name from the word meaning 'meeting place'. The town has become a part of Australian folklore because of the Tantanoola Tiger. The tiger was most definitely not a mythical beast but the stories of monster dingo, wolf, lion or tiger continued, it killed so many sheep it was suggested that it may have supernatural powers. A hunt was organized and on August 21 1895 it was shot dead by Tom Donovan, the beast turned out to be a Assyrian wolfhound that probably jumped ship at one of the coastal ports and made it's way to Tantanoola.
