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Old 11th April 2009, 04:07 AM   #135
Akhenaten
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Originally Posted by proudnonbbeliever View Post
the maps i was thinkin of were the early ones done by dutch explorers and the like who were to lazy to actually go all the way around the coastline and just made up the rest based on observations. They would've made bloody good aussies, bit of a shame.

The National Library of Australia has examples of the maps you were thinking of.

You can navigate to them from here.


Dutch people DO make bloody good Aussies.

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There are 96.000 Dutch born emigrants in Australia and approximately 250,000 Australians with some Dutch blood in them. (2008)

This bloke, Ton Ammerlaan whose site I quoted that from knows all about Dutch stuff in Australia, and he's very good at webbing it.



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