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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Steve Irwin, Albert Ernest Kitson, Rica Erickson, Terri Irwin, Louisa Atkinson, Alice Manfield, David Fleay, Densey Clyne, John Lhotsky, Richard Daintree, Ellis Rowan, Vera Scarth-Johnson, Sidney William Jackson, Lewis Roberts, Henry Burrell, Thomas Pennington Lucas, Bob Irwin, Margaret Thorsborne, Harry Butler, Edmund James Banfield, Charles Leslie Barrett, James Charles Cox, Vincent Serventy, Kathleen McArthur, Harry Frauca, Paul MacGillivray, Ben Cropp, Norman Arthur Wakefield, Charles Coxen, Richard Austin Bastow, Graham Pizzey, Neville Coleman, Richard Weatherly, Trevor Pescott, Robin Hill, Horace William Wheelwright, Herbert Ward Wilson, George Arthur Keartland, Morton Allport, Michael Stanley Reid Sharland, Ian Fraser, Tarlton Rayment, Edward Edgar Pescott, Charles Francis Laseron, George Prideaux Robert Harris, Jack Hyett, John Young, Edith Coleman, Des Hackett. Excerpt: Stephen Robert "Steve" Irwin (22 February 1962 - 4 September 2006), nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter," was an Australian television personality, wildlife expert, and conservationist. Irwin achieved worldwide fame from the television series The Crocodile Hunter, an internationally broadcast wildlife documentary series which he co-hosted with his wife Terri. Together, the couple also co-owned and operated Australia Zoo, founded by Irwin's parents in Beerwah, about 80 km (50 miles) north of the Queensland state capital city of Brisbane. Irwin died on 4 September 2006 after being pierced in the chest by a stingray barb while filming an underwater documentary film entitled Ocean's Deadliest. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship MY Steve Irwin was named in his honour. Irwin was born on his mother's birthday to Lyn and Bob Irwin in Essendon, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. He moved with his parents as a child to Queensland in 1970, where he a...