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From: "Colin" <>
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday Australia
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 04:00:23 GMT


Dot,
I believe the name pre-dates not just the Aboriginal people but
probably the dinosaurs - well, maybe not the name but the thing
it refers to does.
Try this link:
http://www.showroom.com.au/aushistory.htm

It's an interesting looking page.

This is a brief quote:

"Eons ago: Australia broke away from the massive Gwandanaland
forming the world's first continent in the southern hemisphere."

Colin

"Dot Wells" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hello,
>
> I may be wrong, but I think it was called Gwandanaland by the
Aboriginals.
>
> >I was referring to the the geographical, not the political,
entity; IMU
> >the people who were already there already regarded it as one
place,
> >irrespective of name, before Capt Cook found what hadn't been
lost.
>
> Cheers,
> -
> Dot Wells (nee Maclean)
> Perth, Western Australia.
> mailto:
> Research Names
> http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/community/dps/research/wel02.html
>
> SAVE OUR CENSUS! ON 7 AUG 2001 TICK "YES"
> Want to know more?
> See: http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~affho/affho-07.htm
>

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