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Paul Edmund Strzelecki : Adelong 1840 | In Australia 1839-43 | Stamps & Covers | In Australia (video) | W.B. Clarke | Eugene von Guerard print 1866 | Paul Edmund Strzelecki c.1845. Contents Who was first? Chronology McMillan Dinner Macarthur's reply References ----------------- Abstract : During February - March 1840 the Paul Edmund Strzelecki - James Macarthur expedition to Wilson's Promontory on the west coast of Victoria passed through Adelong. After reaching and naming Mount Kosciusko it  went on to encounter the then unnamed Gippsland region, and finally on to Melbourne. Controversy subsequently arose in 1856 concerning the claim to "discovery of Gippsland" by Angus McMillan. Macarthur subsequently intervened to put forward a claim on the part of himself and Strzelecki. The Strzelecki - Macarthur personal and profession connection was emphasised during a brief stay in the Adelong region of New South Wales whilst en route south...

B2 bomber, Diego Garcia, 2006. Contents Stupid decision Chronology Alien base References ------------------- 1. "Stupid decision" Diego Garcia is a small island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It is  also the most important United States military base outside of America. Why? Well, that's a secret ...... It is also the main island in the Chagos Archipelago , or Chagos Islands group, being seven atolls comprising sixty islands. This uninhabited, isolated area of the Indian Ocean was discovered by Portuguese explorers in 1512 and later claimed by the French in 1715. Since 1814 it has been claimed as the property of the United Kingdom, being as it was uninhabited at the time of discovery. Early in 2026 the United States realised that the United Kingdom was giving Diego Garcia to Mauritius, allowing Chagossians to return to the islands, and that  this would threaten the long-term stability of the military base and its immediate surrounds which include...

Australia: Airmail 1931 | Australia in Space 2024 | Commemorative PPEs | Rare Covers | Souvenir Covers 1970-1997 + Varieties | Souvenirs Covers 1997+ | World Youth Day 2008 | WWF 50 Years | Postage Paid Australia, 14 November 1934. 1. Postage Paid Australia The words Postage Paid Australia , or an earlier equivalent such as Paid at Sydney , have appeared on letters and parcels posted in Australia since the earliest days of centralised, official postal services in the second half of the nineteenth century, prior to the proclamation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901 through federation of the various states. Postage Page Sydney, 10 December 1901. Location-specific postage paid machine postmark, 14 April 1965. In 2026 the words can be seen as postmarks, on blank envelopes, postcards, maxicards, aerogrammes, stamped envelopes, a variety of Australia Post covers, as gummed or sticky labels, in machine printed forms and as individual stam...