Talk:Bass Strait
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[edit] Incorrect dimensions?
Strong currents between the Antarctic driven Southern Ocean and Tasman Sea provide a strait of powerful, wild storm waves. To illustrate its wild strength, Bass Strait is both twice as wide and twice as rough as the English Channel.
I'm a bit confused by the last sentence. This article and others refer to Bass Strait as measuring 322 km in length and 240 km wide at its narrowest point. The article on the English Channel refers to that water body as measuring 536 km in length and 34 km wide at its narrowest, 240 km wide its widest.Plasma east 09:25, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] George Bass
i am kassandra joharia bass, my great grandfather came, with his parents to the united states in the very late 1800's, my mother who is now 68 years old, said that he used to make boomerangs and curved little animals out of od, she said he told them that he came from the bering straits, down through canada and into the ohio valley. the only connection i have here are the boomerangs and the last name bass, if anyone has any information on willie lee bass please e mail me, we are a people of dark skin and blue eyes our hair color ranges from black to silver white, i understand that these are some of the genetic make ups of the aborigine people. thank you
- Well, I'm not sure if this will help you, but George Bass (who Bass Strait was named after) was a european, not an aboriginal. -- Chuq 23:03, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Some images for this article
I don't know about copyright for these images, and I don't know how to put them on the page. But here they are:
http://img141.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bassstrait1sb.jpg (Google Earth sattelite image) http://img96.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bassstarait9wy.jpg (Road map, original image was found on Google Images)
- These images are copyrighted and so cannot be included on the page. However you can add links to the images. Note that the second link you give above seems to be a broken link. Richard W.M. Jones 09:56, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
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- I'll endeavour to get some World Wind screenshots of the region. -- Chuq 00:03, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bass Strait Triangle
I notice Bass Strait Triangle links here. I've lived in Tasmania for 28 years and have never heard of it. Anyone else familiar with it? -- Chuq 12:19, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
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- This Melburnian has never heard of it either. Wow, one mysterious disappearance?!. Asa01 20:35, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
- Should go with the disappearance - cut! SatuSuro 03:29, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bass Strait Passenger Ships
Anyone? Just started S.S. Loongana due to its connection with the 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster but there seems nothing in this article that might correlate. Is history of australian coastal shipping hiding somehwere?SatuSuro 09:32, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
