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In Reply to: Hence... posted by E-Stat on January 28, 2025 at 15:03:13:
It's first in best dressed.
Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria was named after Pieter de Carpentier, the then governor-general of the Dutch East Indies, because a Dutch guy named it in 1623.
I guess we could change it to the Gulf of Australia.
Not that that would achieve anything at all.
Trying to hide from entropy
John K
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