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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 08/26/2009 : 11:35:28
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This medium-sized city was rebuilt twice in the 20th Century, first after destruction in war, then after destruction by a storm.
1. What is its name?
2. Where is it?
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2009 : 14:08:57 [Permalink]
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Port Darwin?
It's in the Northern territories of Australia.
It was burn down pretty severely by Japanese bombing raids after Pearl Harbour and then by Cyclone Tracy on Christmas 1974.
This map seems to fit.
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/26/2009 : 15:34:08 [Permalink]
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Correct for two points! Congratulationss! It's now just plain Darwin. Wiki says: | On 9 September 1839, HMS Beagle sailed into Darwin harbour during its surveying of the area. John Clements Wickham named the region "Port Darwin" in honour of former shipmate and famed scientist Charles Darwin. |
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What on Earth?: Twice Rebuilt
