Falkland Islanders to hold referendum over sovereignty

[MichaeltheGreat]

Ah, for the good ol' days.

[Alexander's Horse]

It gets better, Captain Cook had earlier raised the flag in Botany Bay but just as Captain Phillip, commanding the first fleet, was having his little flag ceremony in infant Sydney town on 26 January 1788, a French explorer named La Perouse showed up and anchored in Botany Bay. This after millenia of nothing much happening on the east coast of Australia...

http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/napoleon/exploration-and-discovery/la-perouse

The presence of La Perouse was quickly discovered by foraging parties because he anchored near the "Tank Stream" which became Sydney's water supply. The meeting was amicable but the Brits rushed back to build a fort on the site on Botany Bay where La Perouse had been seen just as soon as they could.

That part of Sydney is known to this day as La Perouse. He consoled himself by going off to claim New Caledonia for France while the natives weren't looking

[MichaeltheGreat]

[Dinner]

I still want to find the island from Lost but supposedly it moves location and moves through time so it's hard to find.

[Alexander's Horse]

I live there, it's called Pohnpei

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pohnpei

Also the setting for the Far cry series

[Dinner]

300 inches of rain per year?! Jesus Christ! What do you do use a boat instead of a car to go down the road? Seriously, even the temperate rain forests of northern California only get a little over 100 inches of rain per year. 300 is almost an inch of rain per day!

[MichaeltheGreat]

Tropical islands.

[Alexander's Horse]

We have a boat

Re Farcry, I haven't spotted any actual zombies, but some residents do a close aproximation, especially when stoned on sakai (sa-cow), a potent local version of Kava

[DaShi]

Lost was filmed in Hawaii on the same island they filmed Jurassic Park.

[MichaeltheGreat]

300 inches of rain per year?! Jesus Christ! What do you do use a boat instead of a car to go down the road? Seriously, even the temperate rain forests of northern California only get a little over 100 inches of rain per year. 300 is almost an inch of rain per day!

Mt. Waialeale in Kaua'i gets between 380-460 inches of rain per year.

[regexcellent]

300 inches of rain per year?! Jesus Christ! What do you do use a boat instead of a car to go down the road? Seriously, even the temperate rain forests of northern California only get a little over 100 inches of rain per year. 300 is almost an inch of rain per day!

IIRC parts of Alaska and BC get that much.

That's gotta be a seriously awesome gig, did you get to request that after your stint in Afghanistan?

[Alexander's Horse]

Lost was filmed in Hawaii on the same island they filmed Jurassic Park.

This island is very similar and just as kooky as the show.

The big attraction here is these ruins, which might have just as well inspired an epsiode of Lost.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Madol

It is a mystery who built it and how, massive stones were moved, over 90 islets created with canals like Venice.

Now it is a taboo, haunted place.

[Tupac Shakur]

Lost was filmed in Hawaii on the same island they filmed Jurassic Park.

Correct. The fictional island that served as the primary setting for that television series was probably located at approximately 33°7′S 171º6′W before Benjamin Linus moved it in December 2004. It's current fictional location is unknown.

[Uncle Sparky]

I saw no mention of AH in the Wiki write-ups. Someone should fix that.

[Uncle Sparky]

Falkland Islands voters decided by an overwhelming 99.8 per cent margin Monday to keep their government just the way it is: a British Overseas Territory.

Of the 1,517 valid votes cast, only 3 islanders voted "no" to the question: "Do you wish the Falkland Islands to retain their current political status as an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom?" One vote was somehow lost.

from the CBC.
As though there was any doubt, 92% turn out and near unanimous vote to stay British.