McKenzie, Kim (1951 – )

Two-time Australian national surfing champion, from Mooloolaba, Queensland, who found international fame in the mid-1970s as the "shark girl," thanks to her day job as a shark culler in the waters near her Sunshine Coast home.

McKenzie was born (1951) in Sydney, the second of four children, to a ship-builder and fisherman father; the family moved to Mooloolaba, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, when McKenzie was still a toddler, and from a young age she was more interested in helping her fathe...