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1880 Brisbane Courier 17 July 5/2 Of the same genus as a shark observed..in Port Jackson, and called by the fishermen there the ‘Blue Pointer’.

1906 Forest & Stream 25 Aug. 301/1 I know of only three instances in which human beings have been taken by blue pointers on the Australian coast.

2003 Jack May 21/1 Since it is a relative of the feared Great White, or White Pointer, the Mako is known in some regions as the Blue Pointer.

1881 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 6 358 Carcharodon rondeletii... ‘The White Pointer’ of Sydney Fishermen.

1882 J. E. Tenison-Woods Fish & Fisheries New S. Wales iv. 95 On the appearance of a ‘blue pointer’ among boats fishing for schnapper..the general cry is raised.

1896 F. G. Aflalo Sketches Nat. Hist. Austral. iii. 222 The Blue-Pointer..is the favourite shark of that particular form of fiction which passes for popular natural history.

1917 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 588/1 Those that the Sydney fisherman knows best,..and destroy human life, are the tiger shark, the blue pointer [etc.].

1953 J. L. B. Smith Sea Fishes S. Afr. 50 Isurus glaucus..Blue Pointer, Mako Shark... A famous angling fish, abundant in Australasian waters, very swift and powerful.

1963 H. W. McCormick et al. Shadows in Sea iv. 101 The Blue Pointer, in turn, is a name given by some South African Fishermen to the shark elsewhere known as the Great White, called in Australia the White Death or White Pointer.

2005 Sunday Times (Perth, Austral.) (Nexis) 20 Mar. A 26-year-old man was killed by a 6m white pointer at the Abrolhos Islands yesterday.