Australian History

[MegsyB007]

Read the clues again Liliane. What am I actually asking?

 

[Rockhunter62]

Ok, I'll have go.

1 - "the Telegraph Station isthe birthplace of the Alice Springs township."

2 - "Established in 1871 to relay messages between Darwin and Adelaide andalsolinking with an underwater cable network to London, thus creating the first real communication between Australia and England."

How's that.

 

[MegsyB007]

Spot on perfect! You got it Rockhunter - over to you!

 

[Rockhunter62]

Spot on perfect! You got it Rockhunter - over to you!

Bugger, give me a couple of hours and I'll try to find a question.

Cheers

Doug

 

[xcvator]

1/ 1st white child born in the central macdonnel ranges,town of Alice Springs. Benstead, Lulu, Lucille went on to be an internationaly famous singer

 

[liliane]

Hello, have I misunderstood hall of fame? I doubt it, there are only two in Alice spring, no hall of fame in Telegraph Station, I looked everywhere :lol:

 

[MegsyB007]

It's been solved. Read Rockhunter's answer.

It's his turn to do the next one now.

 

[Rockhunter62]

Here we go folks.

Who am I and what was I infamous for?

I came to Australia in 1826.

Cheers

Doug

 

[Rockhunter62]

Next clue.

I am male.

 

[MegsyB007]

Martin Cash - the 'gentleman bushranger' - infamously escaped goal three times and avoided the hangman's noose after being convicted for murder?

 

[Rockhunter62]

Sorry no Megsy.

Another clue.

He had a boat.

 

[MegsyB007]

Black Jack Anderson - infamously Australia's first pirate.

"Anderson was a violent African American who came to Australia in 1826. He and his crew of pirates were based on Middle Island in the Recherche Archipelago just off the coast of Esperance, where they attacked and looted passing boats and ships. They also murdered local Aboriginal men and enslaved their women."

Sounds like a charming guy.... Not!

 

[Rockhunter62]

You are onto it Megsy, :100: % correct. Over to you.

Cheers :beer: :beer: :beer:

Doug

 

[MegsyB007]

Thanks Doug, cheers mate.

Here's something a little different...

What am I? Whats my proud claim? And what are my GPS co-ordinates?

 

[Rockhunter62]

The Cape Otway Lighthouse. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Otway_Lighthouse

385123.6S,1433042.2E

The light was first lit in 1848 using a first orderFresnel lens;[2]it was the second lighthouse completed on mainland Australia and it remains the oldest surviving lighthouse in mainland Australia.

Cheers

Doug

 

[MegsyB007]

Oh mate! Too easy! Well done Doug!

PS: I have -38 degrees in a different format. -38.8565807,143.5118015

But GPS confuses the hell out of me, so who knows?!
I get lost driving home...

Back to you!

Cheers,
Megsy

 

[Tathradj]

On Montague Island, They had to park the lenses in a
particular way because when the Sun came up over the ocean,
They would start a bush fire 10 miles away.

 

[MegsyB007]

Oops! :lol:

 

[Rockhunter62]

Thanks Megsy, in the middle of doing dinner so I'll put up a question tonight or early in the morning. Just beware that I am in the Western Australia.

Cheers

Doug

 

[Gilly47]

U 2 reading out of the same book or sumfin??