Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Adelaide, Australia
quote:
Originally posted by tubularbills
whatever happened to regular Guinea?
Its in Africa
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Apr-04-2010 04:59
tubularbills
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Middle of fucking nowhere
quote:
Originally posted by Trance Nutter
Its in Africa
so Africans flocked to an island on the other side of the Indian ocean for a new settlement????
Apr-04-2010 06:09
Sushipunk
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Registered: Sep 2006
Location: Chateau Verdafloor
quote:
Originally posted by tubularbills
so Africans flocked to an island on the other side of the Indian ocean for a new settlement????
It's more likely that the English named it that, possibly because it reminded them of Guinea in Africa.
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Apr-04-2010 06:19
Trance Nutter
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Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Adelaide, Australia
quote:
Originally posted by Sushipunk
It's more likely that the English named it that, possibly because it reminded them of Guinea in Africa.
Actually the Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese all were the main explorers of that region well before the English (they even discovered Australia hundreds of years before the English), so more likely it was one of them.
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Apr-04-2010 06:32
Sushipunk
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Location: Chateau Verdafloor
quote:
Originally posted by Trance Nutter
Actually the Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese all were the main explorers of that region well before the English (they even discovered Australia hundreds of years before the English), so more likely it was one of them.
Good point.
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Apr-04-2010 06:34
tubularbills
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Location: Middle of fucking nowhere
a tropical island reminded the explorers of Africa!?!??!
Apr-04-2010 06:44
Trance Nutter
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Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Adelaide, Australia
quote:
Originally posted by tubularbills
a tropical island reminded the explorers of Africa!?!??!
Africa isn't only deserts you know.
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Apr-04-2010 06:49
tubularbills
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Middle of fucking nowhere
quote:
Originally posted by Trance Nutter
Africa isn't only deserts you know.
yes, i'm well aware of Africa's massive landscape. but nothing....NOTHING i would think would remind me of that continent on a tropical island.
ok, maybe madagascar.
i don't know, i've never been to either place; i'm just really REALLY curious about this whole thing for some stupid reason.
Apr-04-2010 07:03
tubularbills
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Middle of fucking nowhere
quote:
In 1545 the Spaniard Yñigo Ortiz de Retez sailed along the north coast of New Guinea as far as the Mamberamo River near which he landed, naming the island 'Nueva Guinea'. The first map showing the whole island (as an island) was published in 1600 and shows it as 'Nova Guinea'.
