Subject: Pope Line/ Oz tps
Date: Mar 13, 2001 @ 22:38
Author: Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
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>From: peter.smaardijk@..._________________________________________________________________________
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: museum map
>Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 08:31:31 -0000
>
>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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