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Bill Mollison interview on SBS last night
Undoubtedly the greatest Australian ever,
his permaculture invention may just save the world



permaculture movie

Sacred balance


Aotearoa Plants as seen by Cook


As Gavin Menzies points out, Cook was following a chart...
[following is from Menzies' book, a correction of my earlier post]
Cook was a great man, and the greatest navigator of all time, but he discovered neither
New Zealand nor Australia. More than two centuries before he embarked on his voyages,
a cluster of maps from the Dieppe School showed Australia with remarkable clarity. The
Jean Rotz map was in possession of the British Admiralty when Cook set sail, and Joseph Banks,
who sailed with Cook, had acquired another of the finest, the Harleian (Dauphin), showing
Australia with the same precision as the Rotz map . . . The Endeavour Reef, on which Cook
later ran aground, is clearly shown on these earlier maps, together with what later became
known as Cooktown Harbour. When Cook had extricated himself for the reef, he sailed directly
for Cooktown, the only harbour in a thousand miles of costline. "This harbour will do excellently
for our purposes, although it is not as large as I have been told." Desliens's map does indeed
show it larger, for sea levels were lower when Admiral Zhou Man originally charted
the coast in 1422-23

(The Chinese, lacking Harrisons watches, needed to establish shore bases
and time a lunar eclipse - vs the stone platform in East Aus.
before they could establish longitude.

Magellan had a chart showing him the straights which bear his name...
1421 The Chinese discover the world