The Taka

This was the dive boat where it all happened. This was my first 5 minutes back on solid ground...which still felt like it was swaying for the next 3 days.

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0.0054 Leagues Under the Sea

June 28th 2007
One could probably contest the exactness of 0.0054 leagues...but it's really a hard distance to nail down. At one point, a league was defined as the distance that a person, or a horse, can walk in 1 hour of time (usually about 3.5 miles or 5.5 kilometers). It has also been expressed as 3 nautical miles (or about 5.556km). But who's really going to do the conversion anyway? Actually, I can think of ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Great Barrier Reef

Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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