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Re: Antipodeans

>Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 18:03:15 +1100
>To:monster@super-highway.net
>From:vmarsden@postoffice.sandybay.utas.edu.au (Vanessa Marsden)
>Subject:Re: Antipodeans
>
>>What does antipodean mean?  I hate sounding stupid, I'm just new :)
>
>
>Dear Trish,
>
>*grin* better to sound stupid than be stupid! 'The Antipodes' is British
>colonial jargon for places on the opposite side of the earth. I can't find
>any solid references at the moment (so people may want to correct me here)
>but I think that the Antipodes was originally thought to be a sort of
>"upside-down world" which was the opposite of the world when it was just
>Europe and the near East. So when there was mention of 'The Great South
>Land' people imagined it to be the true Antipodes. Then, when Europeans
>settled here it was so far away from 'home', and so full of weird things,
>that it did seem to be The Antipodes.
>
>Hope the facts are pretty right- and it makes sense :)
>
>vanessa.
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