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On the beach part VI - a different look :-)
An alternative title - "What's going on ..." :-)

Oh, the photo ...
It doesn't fit ?
Well, We often consider, that on the beach there are only suntanned people,
playing children, another lying not suntanned people, parasols, blankets, mattresses,
some sand :-) and the sea ...
Or the ocean !!!


Yes, yes, yes :-)))
But, is it all truth ?
In most cases probably YES, but Australia is different.
Why ?
Look at the photo ... :-)

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A puzzle...
How Long Is Australia's Coastline?

The correct answer is .... it depends!
It depends on which source you read, apparently.

Source------------------------------Length
Year Book of Australia (1978)-------36 735 km
Australian Encyclopedia-------------19 658 km
Australian Handbook-----------------19 320 km

So who is correct? The answer is: all of them!
Each source used a ruler with different sized increments on it.
If you measure the coastline with a ruler that is just 1 mm long,
you would get a length of 132 000 km!

The article on the next page is taken from The Australian Geographer,
1979 and discusses this problem in a little more detail.

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