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La Perouse an admiral in the race to Botany Bay.... went looking for no-existent treasure islands.
Pérouse was using a map published by the British Admiralty which had intentionally included several non-existent islands.

So the Brits got there first and the rest is.... penal colonies!
 
yorkshirehornet said:
La Perouse an admiral in the race to Botany Bay.... went looking for no-existent treasure islands.
Pérouse was using a map published by the British Admiralty which had intentionally included several non-existent islands.

So the Brits got there first and the rest is.... penal colonies!
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That's it - and possibly a sop to him, there's a Sydney suburb named after him.

Over to you
 
yorkshirehornet said:
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What is so very wrong about this...
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The ease at which the betting scam was set up and how much money they scammed . Mind you, many were russians with far too much money anyway so there is that. This was not even village cricket posing as the IPL. And the commentary <laugh>
 
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