ENTRY 001 / PUBLIC

Yowie

1,047

SPAN: 1825–2026
MAPPED: 920
SOURCES: 9

REGIONS SHOWN: 5
SOURCES SHOWN: 5
MAPPED: 920

REGIONAL FIELDSOURCE REGISTER

01New South Wales48401Australian Yowie Research1,010

02Queensland33202Australian Broadcasting Corporation16

03Victoria8403Internet Archive9

04Northern Territory2304OpenAlex6

05Western Australia1805Territory Stories2

Each row pairs the same rank across two archive fields; it does not imply a direct relationship between that region and source.

AUSFIGURESSUPERNATURAL HUMANOID DICTIONARY

DICTIONARY ENTRY001 / PUBLIC

SUPERNATURAL HUMANOID FIGURE

Yowie

Also indexed as Australian ape, Australian gorilla, yahoo, Yahoo, Yahoo-devil-devil.

PUBLIC-TEXT OCCURRENCES1,04724.55% OF PUBLIC CORPUS

LEADING REGIONNew South Wales484 coded records

DOCUMENTED SPAN1825–2026accepted dated records

MAPPED EVIDENCE92087.9% geographically mapped

ARCHIVE SUMMARY

Across encounter reports, Yowie is usually described as a large, heavily haired, upright or human-shaped figure seen briefly in bushland, beside roads, or near the edge of settlements. Accounts commonly emphasise height, an ape-like outline, tracks, calls, or a rapid retreat from witnesses. The accepted archive contains 1,047 records from 1825–2026. The largest coded regional group is New South Wales (484), and the largest source group is Australian Yowie Research (1,010). These distributions describe archive coverage, not real-world incidence.

OCCURRENCE TIMELINE

records by decade

1820sPEAK 2672020s

REGIONAL FIELD

977 region-coded records

93.3%of this figure's records include a coded region

01New South Wales48449.5%
02Queensland33234.0%
03Victoria848.6%
04Northern Territory232.4%
05Western Australia181.8%
06Australian Capital Territory171.7%
07South Australia111.1%
08Tasmania80.8%

One cell equals 1% of the region-coded subset; exact record counts remain listed at right.

SOURCE CONCENTRATION

9 organisations

96.5%held by the leading source

01
Australian Yowie Research
1,010
02
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
16
03
Internet Archive
9
04
OpenAlex
6
05
Territory Stories
2

SELECTED PUBLIC RECORDS

6 OF 1,047

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