Friday, April 14, 2006

"Unreliable maps have a charm all their own.."

Christopher Pearson: Destiny lies within a chart
April 15, 2006
Unreliable maps have a charm all their own, especially when - as in this case - they record a sovereignty and colonial settlement that might have been but never eventuated. What a difference it would have made to South Australia and the country as a whole if there had been a Francophone outpost, in some ways comparable to New Orleans' influence on US civilisation or Quebec's on Canada.

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