Comments on: Colonial claims: The Murray Darling Catchment and the Orange Line https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2022/05/01/colonial-claims-the-murray-darling-catchment-and-the-orange-line/ Thinking Sovereignty Thu, 12 Oct 2023 07:57:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Kook Kardashian: Cook's miscalculation in New Zealand - Thinking Sovereignty https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2022/05/01/colonial-claims-the-murray-darling-catchment-and-the-orange-line/#comment-147 Thu, 12 Oct 2023 07:57:15 +0000 https://decolonisethemind.wordpress.com/?p=2805#comment-147 […] One of the secret goals of Cook’s first voyage was to claim parts of New Holland that lay to the east of the western-most parts charted by the Dutch (what I have dubbed the Orange line). […]

]]> By: 141st Meridian East – Thinking Sovereignty https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2022/05/01/colonial-claims-the-murray-darling-catchment-and-the-orange-line/#comment-133 Sun, 18 Jun 2023 11:41:53 +0000 https://decolonisethemind.wordpress.com/?p=2805#comment-133 […] This “survey error” also helps a little in bolstering the claim of the Murray Darling catchment itself – by having part of the border running along the river makes the river an integral part of the border, and proves the British “know” the river and have surveryed it. (Later on the British claim on the Murray Darling catchment is further bolstered with the drawing up of the QLD/NSW border at misplaced “Point Danger”, but that’s another story that I touche…) […]

]]> By: Kook Kardashian: Cook’s miscalculation in New Zealand – Thinking Sovereignty https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2022/05/01/colonial-claims-the-murray-darling-catchment-and-the-orange-line/#comment-132 Mon, 26 Sep 2022 10:12:38 +0000 https://decolonisethemind.wordpress.com/?p=2805#comment-132 […] One of the secret goals of Cook’s first voyage was to claim parts of New Holland that lay to the east of the western-most parts charted by the Dutch (what I have dubbed the Orange line). […]

]]> By: The annexation of Papua (with background) – Thinking Sovereignty https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2022/05/01/colonial-claims-the-murray-darling-catchment-and-the-orange-line/#comment-131 Sun, 28 Aug 2022 08:29:15 +0000 https://decolonisethemind.wordpress.com/?p=2805#comment-131 […] survey of the line south of the Murray River was “erroneous”, but deliberate. As the Murray Darling Basin is under British First Discovery under an expanded interpretation of Cook&#8217…, the 141°E border only needs to go down to the northern edge of the Murray Darling Basin (Barrier […]

]]> By: Tasmania and the Belgic Lion – Thinking Sovereignty https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2022/05/01/colonial-claims-the-murray-darling-catchment-and-the-orange-line/#comment-130 Sun, 26 Jun 2022 11:15:57 +0000 https://decolonisethemind.wordpress.com/?p=2805#comment-130 […] already wrote about this here, but there was initially an invisible Dutch/British border on the Australian mainland. The town of […]

]]> By: Kartinyeri v Commonwealth – Thinking Sovereignty https://thinkingsovereignty.com/2022/05/01/colonial-claims-the-murray-darling-catchment-and-the-orange-line/#comment-129 Wed, 25 May 2022 14:46:51 +0000 https://decolonisethemind.wordpress.com/?p=2805#comment-129 […] It is in South Australia. It’s at the mouth the Murray Darling catchment. The Murray Darling runs into a big lake, and inside that lake lies Hindmarsh Island. The Murray Darling Catchment is significant in terms of British colonial claims over the land, click thi…. […]

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