On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 03:19 -0500, "John Francis" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 08:52:23AM +0200, Boris Liberman wrote: > > What an odd name for the location - _null_arbor... My immediate > > reaction - it is a forest of null (binary?!) trees or something... > > /very curious and somewhat mischievous grin/. > > > > Boris > > 15 seconds spent with Google of Wikipedia would have explained it nicely. > > From the wikipedia entry on Nullarbor: > > The word Nullarbor is derived from the Latin nullus, "no", and arbor, > "tree",
And just as illustration, here's a photo taken from the window of the Indian Pacific transcontinental train as we crossed the Nullarbor in 2009: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/nullarbor.jpg Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
