The crystal-clear water beneath 13-year-old Hannah Mighall darkened for a moment. She was sitting astride her surfboard, enjoying the warmth of the sun as she and her cousin waited for the next wave in Tasmania’s idyllic Bay of Fires. Behind them the brilliant-white sandy beach was largely deserted and the surfing had been good so far.
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The sudden shadow below made Mighall instinctively lift her feet – balls of kelp often broke off nearby rocks and drifted in the surf. “They are really slimy so I hated touching them,” she says.Mighall’s cousin, 33-year-old Syb Mundy, who had been sitting on his own board just a few metres from her, raced over and began punching the shark in the side of its head. The shark pulled away from him and as it went underwater it let go of Mighall, lunging instead for her surfboard that was still attached by a rope to her leg.With the board in its mouth, the shark pulled Mighall underwater for a second time. Moments later she popped back up to the surface with her damaged board. The animal had bitten clean through the fibreglass and foam.
Mundy grabbed hold of his cousin, put her on his back and paddled frantically for the shore. Earlier that day Mighall had been practicing water rescues with another girl during training with her local Surf Life Saving association, repeatedly being carried into shore as the “victim”. Now she was doing it for real.
Объяснение:
Kazakhstan has been inhabited since the Paleolithic period. [10] Pastoralism developed during the Neolithic Period , as the climate and terrain conditions in the region were suitable for a nomadic lifestyle .
The Kazakh region is an important part of the Eurasian trade Steppe Route, the ancestor of the terrestrial Silk Roads . Archaeologists believe that humans first domesticated the horse in the region's great steppes. In recent prehistory, peoples of various cultures such as the Proto-Indo-European Afanasiyevo culture [11] , later the early Indo-Iranian cultures such as the Andronovo culture [12] , and later the Saka and Massagets lived in Central Asia . [13] [14] Nomadic Scythians in the southern region of the country, among other groups and the Persian Empire . In 329 BC, Alexander the Great and his Macedonian Army fought against the Scythians in the Battle of Jaxartes along the Jaxartes River, which stretches to the southern border of modern Kazakhstan , today known as the Syr Darya ( Seyhun ) River.
The name "Kazakh" means "to wander", an Old Turkic word reflecting the nomadic culture of the Kazakhs. [9] The Persian suffix -stan means "land" or "place", so Kazakhstan can literally be translated as "land of travellers".
