Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Geography-schooling American-style at The Age
The locales of Heywood, Port Fairy, Mount Napier and Lake Condah, and the Indigenous Gunditjmara people are in/from Gippsland, apparently. (And The Age can’t even get the date for Anzac day right, either).
In another geographical affront today – though a more forgivable one, because it belongs to a website-only (at this stage), breaking news story – the Cyclone Monica-ravaged town of Maningrida is located 570km south of Darwin. Now Maningrida is admittedly well off the radar of the average Melbournian, but only a basic understanding of (i) cyclones (viz that they lose power as they travel over land) and (ii) Australian geography (viz that there is no open ocean for a whole 2,700 km south of Darwin, is required to appreciate that, wherever Maningrida might in fact be, one place it is not is south of Darwin.
The locales of Heywood, Port Fairy, Mount Napier and Lake Condah, and the Indigenous Gunditjmara people are in/from Gippsland, apparently. (And The Age can’t even get the date for Anzac day right, either).
In another geographical affront today – though a more forgivable one, because it belongs to a website-only (at this stage), breaking news story – the Cyclone Monica-ravaged town of Maningrida is located 570km south of Darwin. Now Maningrida is admittedly well off the radar of the average Melbournian, but only a basic understanding of (i) cyclones (viz that they lose power as they travel over land) and (ii) Australian geography (viz that there is no open ocean for a whole 2,700 km south of Darwin, is required to appreciate that, wherever Maningrida might in fact be, one place it is not is south of Darwin.
