

| Subject: | Re: A bit of off topic history... |
| From: | BenT Syncro |
| Date: | Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:45:43 -0800 |
On 3/23/06, Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> wrote: > >A while back there was a bit of bother here about where Dunedin is. > >Well, this is from the "Scotsman News" daily e-newspaper. > > > > On 23 March 1848 the ship John Wickliffe anchored at Port > >Chalmers, New Zealand. From here Scottish settlers founded the city > >of Dunedin (the Gaelic name for Edinburgh). One of the city founders > >was Rev Thomas Burns, a nephew of the poet Robert Burns. To read > >about travelling Scots visit heritage.scotsman.com > > > > Mostly for the rest of us geographically challenged types... ...enjoy. > > > Dunedin's on the east coast near the southern end of New Zealand's > South Island. > > > Don't forget Dunedin, Florida (part of the Tampa complex). I always thought Dunedin was where Canadians were exiled and snails were aplenty. It's also a bottomless pit of Vanagon parts. =) BenT
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