Education & Reference GD Atlas thread

[HomerThompson]

Gotta wonder what its like in a lighthouse at night, wind howling

It's pretty wild. Stayed in old lighthouse keepers accom on Kangaroo Island for 2 nights. Got talking with the local NP ranger and went with them to do nighttime weather readings including trip up the lighthouse at 2am. Great experience but FMD it was cold & windy.

 

[Syd]

Gotta wonder what its like in a lighthouse at night, wind howling

Try one from back home on Lake Michigan in winter



Brrrrr

 

[peternorth]

Try one from back home on Lake Michigan in winter

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Brrrrr

Will do!

 

[Billy ray]

Posted this before

i love how the qld nsw border follows the mountain range towards the coast, and then the surveyor took a wrong turn on a ridge, ended up too far north, needed to get back to what is now central tweed heads, so they drew a straight line to a point in tweed heads, then it goes to point danger. cuts thru the airport.
So depending on winds, you either land in Qld and taxi thru NSW or vice versa


My house is on this map

 

[Forward Press]

Posted this before

i love how the qld nsw border follows the mountain range towards the coast, and then the surveyor took a wrong turn on a ridge, ended up too far north, needed to get back to what is now central tweed heads, so they drew a straight line to a point in tweed heads, then it goes to point danger. cuts thru the airport.
So depending on winds, you either land in Qld and taxi thru NSW or vice versa

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My house is on this map

Do people living there find the distinction important? How did it cope during the Queensland border closures?

 

[akkaps]

Posted this before

i love how the qld nsw border follows the mountain range towards the coast, and then the surveyor took a wrong turn on a ridge, ended up too far north, needed to get back to what is now central tweed heads, so they drew a straight line to a point in tweed heads, then it goes to point danger. cuts thru the airport.
So depending on winds, you either land in Qld and taxi thru NSW or vice versa

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My house is on this map

Border closures would have been a nightmare

 

[Syd]

Do people living there find the distinction important? How did it cope during the Queensland border closures?

Having lived on the Gold Coast for a couple of years, the Daylight Savings Time issue was bigger.

Had to adjust an hour for departures to Tweed Heads for appointments (or other northern NSW towns for that matter)

 

[Spongebob]

 

[Spongebob]

The northernmost point of Ireland is not in Northern Ireland.

Please... explain

donegal wraps over the top of Northern Island. The topmost town shown, Buncrana, is where some great grandparents came from.

 

[Shell]

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That makes me feel sick looking at that

 

[Forward Press]

Which brings me onto this next neat diagram I found on Reddit:

Confusing, right?

 

[HomerThompson]

Which brings me onto this next neat diagram I found on Reddit:

Confusing, right?

Doesn't one of those include the Channel Islands?

 

[Shell]

Which brings me onto this next neat diagram I found on Reddit:

Confusing, right?

Especially for the Irish I'd imagine...

 

[HomerThompson]

Especially for the Irish I'd imagine...

As if the Irish haven't already suffered enough because of the f***ing intimate-ing British.

 

[Forward Press]

Doesn't one of those include the Channel Islands?

Yeah but I couldn't find it immediately. I just know that like the Isle of Man they are considered separate.

Edit - found it.

 

[Forward Press]

As if the Irish haven't already suffered enough because of the f***ing intimate-ing British.

Reminds me of this joke:

How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?








None

 

[Shell]

*just like to say- I love you Irish.

My best mate was Irish.

 

[peternorth]

Having lived on the Gold Coast for a couple of years, the Daylight Savings Time issue was bigger.

Had to adjust an hour for departures to Tweed Heads for appointments (or other northern NSW towns for that matter)

Is it worse than having two foxtel boxes?

 

[HomerThompson]

*just like to say- I love you Irish.

My best mate was Irish.

Nex minnit - hating on rangas

 

[Shell]

Nex minnit - hating on rangas

Well alot of Irish are rangas... arent they?


And HEY. I got blonde jokes growing up so neh

 

[Billy ray]

Re qld-nsw border. It was an absolute nightmare when closed. They had concrete bollards and fences across almost all roads, sometimes along median strips with one side of road being nsw and one being qld.
they closed i reckon a dozen or more border crossings leaving just 3 ways in (pacific motorway, gold coast hwy and wharf st i think it was). Queues stretched for km’s and time taken to cross was anywhere from an additional ten minutes to hours.

There were calls to move the border control 20km south where its just a stretch of motorway amongst farmland but of course they couldn’t do that as qld police couldn’t police in nsw (and nsw didnt want the border closed and wouldn’t use their police).

Thankfully its open again, for now. I spend half my time in each state on average but when border was closed i rarely crossed it. I have neighbours and friends who live one side and work the other, or have kids in schools on other side, and it was terrible for them.

Not having daylight saving in qld also makes life more difficult than it should be for 6 months a year.

but in saying all this i wouldn’t live anywhere else. This spot, from south of burleigh in qld to yamba (south of byron), is amazing

 

[Syd]

Re qld-nsw border. It was an absolute nightmare when closed. They had concrete bollards and fences across almost all roads, sometimes along median strips with one side of road being nsw and one being qld.
they closed i reckon a dozen or more border crossings leaving just 3 ways in (pacific motorway, gold coast hwy and wharf st i think it was). Queues stretched for km’s and time taken to cross was anywhere from an additional ten minutes to hours.

There were calls to move the border control 20km south where its just a stretch of motorway amongst farmland but of course they couldn’t do that as qld police couldn’t police in nsw (and nsw didnt want the border closed and wouldn’t use their police).

Thankfully its open again, for now. I spend half my time in each state on average but when border was closed i rarely crossed it. I have neighbours and friends who live one side and work the other, or have kids in schools on other side, and it was terrible for them.

Not having daylight saving in qld also makes life more difficult than it should be for 6 months a year.

but in saying all this i wouldn’t live anywhere else. This spot, from south of burleigh in qld to yamba (south of byron), is amazing

Plus no telling who you might bump into at the Surfers Paradise Surf Life Saving Club

 

[Billy ray]

Plus no telling who you might bump into at the Surfers Paradise Surf Life Saving Club

Went to surfers paradise for first time in 3 years yesterday. The hospital my gf is in is on the tram line there so when she was in surgery and recovery i caught tram in, walked around, shook my head and caught tram back.
That’ll do me for another 10 years

 

[Syd]

Went to surfers paradise for first time in 3 years yesterday. The hospital my gf is in is on the tram line there so when she was in surgery and recovery i caught tram in, walked around, shook my head and caught tram back.
That’ll do me for another 10 years

Living in Robina I avoided Surfers during schoolies and GP weeks (week before/during/after) like the plague

 

[Richard Cranium]

Another Canadian one is Zavikon Island. This is the smallest international bridge in the world. It just connects to someones backyard.

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Or is it?

A popular but incorrect tale among local guides is that the larger island is in Canada, while "Little Zavikon Island" is in the United States, and the footbridge between them is the "shortest international bridge in the world".