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average wing span
goose flying away from the sun ... 1 metre
goose flying into the sun ... half metre
number of golden-egg-laying geese ... not as many as lead and zinc
average wing span...average life spans: Carp -100 years, Parrot - 80 years, Swan - 100 years, Hawk Eyed Goapulus - 200 years and Turkey Buzzard - 120 years.
........... 7,999The coastline of Australia is 26,735km and is made up of over 8,000 Islands.
No one appears to know the exact number of Islands and maybe it's about time someone did an exact count.
........... 7,999
dunksplash ........... 7,998
dunksplash ....
like the last supper mate, lolThe twelve apostles appear to be ...... Dunksplash, The 11 apostles appear to be ...... dunksplash
When Victoria was made a colony separate from New South Wales in 1851, there was much conjecture about where the border should lie. With natural boundaries being in favour at the time, one intention was to make the Murrumbidgee River the state boundary. After much argument, it was eventually decided to define the border as a bearing from Cape Howe, the eastern-most point of Victoria, to 'the nearest source of the River Murray', and from there along the river's course to the border of South Australia. The use of a river as a boundary has caused many arguments and debates between the states. Originally it was thought that doing so would cause less disputes and require less maintenance. But as trade and tariffs became more important in the early days, the Murray also grew in importance as a major trading route.
The river has changed it's course over time in some places, and because the jurisdiction of New South Wales extends to the southern high bank of the Murray River, this may change the status of some land parcels affected by the river's meandering path.
In 1859, NSW claimed the pastoral leases of Pental Island near Swan Hill on the grounds that the island lay to the north of the watercourse of the River Murray. In 1872, the case was decided in Victoria's favour when the Privy council maintained that the main watercourse, being the channel of greatest discharge of the Murray was to the north of the island.
The line of bearing between the start of the Murray and Cape Howe was explored and marked between 1870 and 1872 by Surveyors Alexander Black and Alexander Allan. In 1984, this line was resurveyed by the Department of Surveying, RMIT, and the section of the border was renamed The Black-Allan line in honour of those first explorers.
RMIT lecturer and survey team member Ron Grenfell said there had been intense rivalry between the two colonies from the start and NSW usually triumphed.
Before they had even split, the southern colony had already lost the rich farm country of the Riverina and rights to tax the lucrative Murray River trade.
The original border was to have been the Murrumbidgee River, which would have ceded to the southern colony a large tract of land, almost as far north as Canberra.
"Victoria would have been huge," Dr Grenfell said.
The discovery of gold at Delegate, and the question of which colony it lay in, prompted the first survey of the line from the Murray to Cape Howe nearly 20 years after the colonies had split. Surveyors Alexander Black and Alexander Allan forced their way through some of Australia's most rugged terrain to finish the two-year survey in 1872.
Black, a Victorian, laid the marker stone so that it faced Victoria. The straight segment of border was named the Black-Allan Line in their honour.
Even though it owns Delegate, not everything has gone NSW's way. When Dr Grenfell and a team of RMIT students surveyed part of the Black-Allan Line in 1984, they discovered an error that meant NSW had for decades been repairing a Victorian stretch of the Princes Highway just north of Genoa.
It was only a 14-metre stretch but, after the loss of the Riverina, the Murray watercourse and the gold at Delegate, it was, for Victoria, a rare, symbolic victory
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