Re: First Americans may have been Aussies
From: Martyn Harrison (nospam_at_spammers.of.the.world.unite)
Date: 11/29/04
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:54:23 GMT
Apparently on date Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:33:43 +1300, benlizross
<benlizro@ihug.co.nz> said:
>David Christainsen wrote:
>>
>> Dear Friends,
>>
>> Reuters
>> http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1193830.htm
>>
>> Concerning this contentious issue, does anyone have more
>> evidence to offer?
>>
>> Best,
>> David Christainsen
>> Wellesley, Mass USA
>
>"Island hopping from Australia to America via Polynesia and Japan"???
>Ah, the special geography known only to science journalists.
>
>Gonzalez' Baja bones have been discussed here in 2002 and again in
>September of this year. What's new, other than that she gave a paper at
>another conference?
Not wanting to add support the theories being presented, but the island hopping
route sounds quite conventional geography to me.
Sommat like Queensland, Papua, the northern islands of Indonesia, then on to
the eastern islands of the Phillipines, the eastern coast of Taiwan, the Ryukyu
Islands, Okinanawa, Nansei Islands, along the east coast of Japan, then from
the northern tip of Japan there are the Kuril islands all the way to Kamchatka.
There, you have the option of going coastal to the Bering Strait over to
Alaska, or the more southern island chain including the Aleutians which joins
the continents with no really big gaps.
Contrastingly, to go from Australia to America by a more southern route, you
have to get from Australia to New Zealand - which is an island-free gap of a
thousand miles, roughly equivalent to the Columbus crossing of the Atlantic -
and from NZ to South America is something like five times as far, 5000 miles
with nowhere to stop and replenish your supplies of wood, food, water, etc.
It is a long way, i.e. from Australia to Baja you will be doing at least 12,000
miles all told. I've no idea if the rest of the material has any merit, but
there is an island hopping route via Japan, as far as I can see. What am I
missing there?
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/sa/SAIRC/1997/50.html
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