#Map of @Australia shows #NSW at its largest. It's all been downhill from 1833... Source: teddit.net/r/MapPorn/comment…

Oct 12, 2017 · 6:21 AM UTC

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Imagine all the obsessively parochial Melburnians wincing at the sight of this. (💡They'd call it Wincefest & claim they invented wincing.)
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Watched the Ray Winstone movie "Tracker". Terrible movie but his character is called Van Dieman. Amazing what you learn from maps 😀
Except it wasn't Dutch New Holland. No European power had a formal claim there, allowing Britain to claim Western Australia on 2 May 1829.