Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Dr Seuss

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Year 12 Graduation Theme I’ve been contacted by a High School, here in Australia, looking for a year 12 senior school graduation gift for their students. The theme for their year 12 graduation valedictory is to be: Dr Seuss’ ‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go’ “Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re […]

Putting ‘Terra Australis’ on the Map

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Aboriginals have inhabited the Australian continent for at least 40,000 years, but it’s a matter of debate which European nationality was the first to ‘discover’ Australia and put it on the map. Terra Australis Incognita ~ The Unknown Land of the South ~ appeared on Ptolemy’s maps, circa 150AD. Ptolemy’s 8-book atlas ‘Geographica’ was the […]

Sun Printing in the Great Sandy Desert

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For about 4 years I worked in mineral exploration as a geological draughts-person. Working on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert I was contracting to a company in Perth, Western Australia, who saw the light in sending someone out into the field with the reconnaissance team, who could plot the grids and interpolate the […]