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[den]

No matter where you are in Australia you are never more than 1000 kilometres from the ocean.

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[psaakyrn.livejournal.com]

The value's slightly lower for Singapore, but yes. :p

(Granted our beaches are nowhere near as good, which defeats the point of having an ocean nearby)

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

And slightly less from something poisonous.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

2 metres, usually.

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

If you're lucky.

It's that kind of place.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

it is!

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I should update my DangerAus map.

[marmoe.livejournal.com]

Don't forget about the crocodiles, sharks and sea wasps! Even the oceans ain't safe.

When in trouble, when in doubt: Run in circles, scream and shout! :D

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

It's worse than I thought - even your barmaids are poisonous!

"Melbourne barmaid Emily Craig, 23, served a client a single 30ml shot glass of Pine-O-Cleen disinfectant in March during a 6 a.m. drinking bout at Evolution Nightclub, causing him to become violently ill, the Melbourne Magistrates court was told."
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSSYD20265420070925?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews

[kuangning]

*snickers.* Paul is grumbling about people having told me just how many things in Australia will be perfectly happy to kill me if I come across them the wrong way. I think he's afraid I'm going to change my mind about moving.

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Oh, Hush.:D
I'm stuck in the landlocked midwest. I'll be lucky if I get to Florida again this year.
Hopefully mombirdie will be well enough to go.

[jim-lane.livejournal.com]

Since I live less than 2 miles (as the proverbial crow flies) from the Atlantic Ocean (and nowhere in Florida is all that far from salt water of some sort), I can only say: "Meh..."

*hehehe!!!*

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[smrgol-t-kirin.livejournal.com]

Yes, but is what's in NY Harbor really water?

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

In Britain you're never more than 30 miles from the sea...
and probably a lot less from a queue for something.

[quen-elf.livejournal.com]

I was going to say, in Britain you're never more than 1000 km from any other part of Britain never mind the sea. :)

(Seriously I didn't entirely understand the original post... it's a joke about how australia is so ridiculously big, arid etc?)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Just a random fact.

[azhdragon.livejournal.com]

... even in Holbrook ?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Oh no! Holbrook is RIGHT on the sea!

[atara.livejournal.com]

Winnipeg is about as far as you can possibly get from an ocean in Canada. Upside: no danger of hurricanes or tidal waves!

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I'm 400km from the sea. Plus, I don't get snow.

It does get a bit hot in Summer, though.

[atara.livejournal.com]

Google says we're 1004km from Churchill, MB, which is our closest ocean-access port (on the Hudson Bay).

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Don't forget that's road miles, so you're likely a good bit closer as the crow flies when it sober!

Have the best

-=Kiyoshi

[atara.livejournal.com]

Nope, that's straight line. There *are* no roads going into Churchill... You either have to take the train (which is out of service often because the tracks heave on the permafrost) or fly. :)

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

That's the beauty of living on an island, I suppose, even the world's largest one.

Still, give me a mountain any day.

Have the best

-=Kiyoshi

[ursuscal.livejournal.com]

...and just a few inches from some kind of poisonous critter. }:xD

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

Hurmmm I'd have thought that in general the diameter of the continent (which while not 'round' per se is roundish), would be greater than 2000 km - but apparently I'm wrong...