Are you sure there wasn't a pope's line in Australia? As far as I
know, according to the Tordesillas treaty a line was drawn somewhere
near 50 deg. west long. But the world was cut in half; so another line
should be running at approx. 130 deg. east long. Which cuts through
Australia. Possibly this wasn't explicitely stated at the time, and
anyway they were still a long way off this 'other side of the world'.
What mattered was the line in the Atlantic.
Peter S.
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@h...> wrote:
> There wasn't a pope's line this end of the world, only in the
atlantic, so
> i'm not sure how that fits in. I hope to have more deatils when i
can get a
> colleague in Canberra to visit, once the crowds die down.
> It's a social history museum, so has Oz inventions like the motor
mower and
> the rotary clothes line, besides all important icon's like Phar
Lap's heart
> (tho Phar Lap as a kiwi horse!).
>
> B
>
> >From: michael donner <m@...>
> >Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> >To: BoundaryPoint@y...
> >Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] museum map
> >Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 01:53:22 -0500
> >
> >looks fantastic
> >
> >i wonder if they deliberately made it from an east timorese point
of view
> >
> >also how did they deliver on the popes line promise
> >
> >like did it have a branch separating the spanish from the
portuguese in the
> >east indies too
> >or what about that
> >
> >m
> >
> >
> > >
> > >Here is an image of the mapping dreamscape at the new Canberra
museum.
> > >Photo from The Age, Sat 10/3/01, p13. North is pointing to the
lower left
> > >of the picture, the coastline being that of the Top End of the
Northern
> > >Territory.
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