brilliant
this must be the explanation
m
>
>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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