I love a good map.

If you like maps too, you’ll want to check out Strange Maps.

Metroblogging Melbourne brought this blog to my attention in their post about Guelphia, one of 10 states in a proposed subdivision of Australia, which encompasses most of modern Victoria, New South Wales and a small part of South Australia.

Guelphia?

The wikipedia entry on these proposed states points out that they were “were geometric divisions of the continent, and did not take into account soil fertility, aridity or population”.

Indeed. Who’s going to want to live in… (fill in the blank).

P.S. Spain and Portugal are there for size contrast.

“Australia, according to the Proposed divisions.” from The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Volume 8, 1838 to accompany “Considerations on the Political Geography and Geographical Nomenclature of Australia by Captain Vetch, Royal Engineers, F.R.S.” According to Wikipedia, presumably in the public domain.

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