CLASSIC MORRIS

THE 50 KLICK DUKE DID YOU KNOW THAT DUCATIS WERE FIRST IMPORTED INTO AUSTRALIA BY A HARDWARE SHOP?
WORDS LESTER MORRIS

People who live in the many nations remote from the Great South Land might be very surprised to discover that the ‘Island/Nation/ Continent’, or ‘Down Under’ – as Australia is so often called – is not only by far the biggest island in the world, but that its area is almost exactly the same as the land mass of the United States of America, if one excludes Alaska. It’s true, because it is almost the same distance from Darwin, in the Northern Territory, to Adelaide in South Australia as it is from America’s Great Lakes to New Orleans. It is also nearly the same distance from Perth in Western Australia to the Nation’s most populous city, Sydney, in New South Wales, as it is from New York to Los Angeles.