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So who discovered australia.. was it the chinese, the french, the dutch or the english.... seems to me the english were last as some of these maps will prove... note these are rather rare!!!! Map 1 1677 Pierre Duval French Map 2 1755 Jean Baptiste Nolin French Map 3 1646 Italian or French Jean Baptist Nolin Map 4 1714 - 1724 Nicholas De Fest 1714 - 1724 Map 5 1662 Joan Blaeu Joan Blaeu Map 6 1690 Vincenzo Coronelle enjoy the rarity!!!!

Now for some water facts.... Here is one idea which may counteract the melting of the polar ice caps: if a water coagulant can not be found (and save the murray river at the same time.... if Nuclear power stations (source of cheap electricity at least for the next 50 years until other viable sources of electricity are found eg more efficient solar or wave/tidal energy - as the main cost of running desal plants is electricity) were to be built here (nrth of adelaide along side at least a 1000 to 1500gl per annum desal plant), in africa, in the middle east, Egypt etc along side Desal plants they may be able to pump the water out of the ocean at the rate in which the ice caps are melting into it.. Not only would it stop half of the world from being flooded but would provide much needed water to various parts of the globe... Ie Africa where they need water and food such as crops that could be produced from the desalinated water, the River land and Mildura which would provide the much needed water for the vineyards, citrus growers (they mainly use overhead sprinklers unlike the grape growers who use drip irrigation which is much more efficient) cow owners, and other farmers and hence they would not need to irrigate from the murray, stopping it from being drained and hence it would reflood and return to normal (as it used to flood when i was a boy from the melting snow). hence what this state, Vic and NSW need is desal plants and nuclear power plants along side them quick smart. The brine water (discharge from the desal plants could also be used in the cooling process of the nuclear power plants and could also perhaps be used as a byproduct in which the salt concentrate is collected and farmed (to make more money from $$$). So i wonder whether the dryest state on the dryest continent will ever become one of the greenest in the world?. As for the disposal of the nuclear waste which in reality there would not be a great deal all they have to do is dig a huge hole (perhaps under neath the americans base in central SA where there is no noise interferance surround the whole with 10 metre thick concrete with 1-2 metre thick malleable lead linings in which it should be able to be stored for at least several million years safely. Also the Adel hills need saving, as a mining company called Maximus resources is trying to mine gold from the Bird in Hand mine. Now these guys intend on draining between 25 - 40 litres per second of water to get at the supposed gold which is below the water aquifer. Now the rate they intend on pumping it out equates to 3,456,000 litres over a 24 hour period which equals 1,261,440,000 litres being pumped out of the underground aquifer per annum (if it lasts that long). Now if they sell this for $1 a litre that is $1,261,440,000 dollars revenue per annum... pppppphhhheeeeeewwwww startling isnt it. And they say they are mining gold... To me the gold appears to be nothing but a bonus by product. Not only will draining this amount of water cripple all of the local vineyards, cow and dairy farms, and other crop growers who use their bores as the life blood but will cripple all of the local industry. These corporate money scheming city dwellers (directors and share holders of this company) should not be able to get away with the corporate crime they are performing and should not be able to get away with pulling the wool over the local peoples eyes. I would hate to see what would happen to Maximus personnelwhen the local woodside residents find out about this. Also the local roads and infrastructure can not handle this sort of traffic in which the mine would create ie water trucks and tailing trucks taking the tailings away to be processed. Not to mention the mine would ruin the beautiful country side. If they were serious about mining gold they would go out to the middle of nowhere where the nickel and copper mines are where there is enough gold mined as a byproduct to cover their operational costs. As some of the more serious mining companies do.

you should see the article in todays paper.. i hope the council is ready for a lot of snake bites and people sueing them due to the proposed victoria park concept... it looks like a snake pit!!!! (i will post it once i have compressed it)

what the... this article makes no sense... if it was true they would have one hell of a beer glut (just like the large wineries!)

Rare cars.... ok some trivia i bet you any money that you can not tell me what the makes and models are..... and another rebadged aston martin (i think it is a db8)

This dude is an interesting character.... i wonder if he is as quick as Schumie??

items from a sunken ship (one that hartleys old man found) or are they from under the ground as the shop owner said... surely the glass items from the 6th to 7th century would have broken if they were buried under the ground!!!!

longines or rolex? is it the gays arcade or the adelaide arcade??

some interesting photos.. keep them coming... i will have to post some of mine that i have noticed around and about...