Inland taipan effective in bite victims of the inland taipan as in those of the coastal taipan. Taipan antivenom is produced and manufactured by the Australian Reptile Park and the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories in Melbourne. In September 2012, in the small city of Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, north of Sydney, more than 1000 kilometres away from the snake's natural environment, a teenage boy was bitten on the finger by an inland taipan. The teenager's rapid self-application of a compression bandage above the wound and the availability and administration of a polyvalent (broad-spectrum) antivenom in the local hospital saved his life. The
Taipan! Taipan! Taipan! is a 1982 turn-based strategy computer game written for the TRS-80 and ported to the Apple II. It was created by Art Canfil and the company Mega Micro Computers, and published by Avalanche Productions. The game "Taipan!" was inspired by the novel "Tai-Pan" by James Clavell. The player is in the role of a trader in the Far East. The goal of the game is for the player to accumulate wealth through trade and possibly also through booty won in battles against pirates. As soon as the player's net worth reaches one million (in the game's undefined currency),