If providence included a 100 mile ocean route, with a rowing pace of 3.5 miles, it would take 2 full days plus 4 hours with no break times.
With the greatest respect, this thread runs the risk of encouraging people to discuss a subject about which they have no specific knowledge, express opinions based on “instinct” rather than evidence, assume that the aborigine peoples of Australia were backward, incapable of traversing their own land and ignorant of other tribes.
20-odd minutes of Googling is all that is needed to show that Aborigines built sea-going craft, that Tasmanian aborigines are known to have travelled by sea to Western Australia and King Island. That they carried men and women, as well as fire, aboard their craft. That is, they were skilled builders and mariners.
What this means for this thread, I don’t know. Aborigines initially walked to Australia, and later Tasmania, across land bridges that were submerged as sea levels rose. Aborigines have inhabited Australia for some 40,000 years.
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Not quite true. It’s a problem if his genealogical ancestry diffuses up to the Bass Strait after it exists, so he could live quite a while before the land bridge was flooded.
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Could you provide some of the links that were the fruit of this 20-odd minutes?
I will admit that my 20-minute attempt, just now, could find nothing of the sort, only statements that Tasmania was isolated from the rest of the world for 8000 years.
Thanks for introducing your note of objectivity. I believe there is a high point on the coast of Australia that makes a few of the channel islands visible.
NOTE: Ive been looking for an online tool that gives the user a shortcut rendering of the distance to the horizon.
John asks “How would he know what route to follow to get to this place whose existence he wouldn’t know of?”
From Wilson’s Promontory facing the channel, he can see all the little islands leading to the BIG island just 10 kilometers off the main island of Tasmania.
Im sure @Tim will be quite relieved.
I think this thread might have go one a bit too long. Setting a short timer to close the topic.
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Did anyone else reaching this point think “Australian aborigines didn’t have access to Google!”?
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You are gracious AND astute.
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