May 1, 2025
1838 Portrait of a surveyor, possibly Captain Charles Sturt (1795-1869).
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1838 Portrait of a surveyor, possibly Captain Charles Sturt (1795-1869).
Sturt +the inland sea
In 1844 Charles Sturt spent a couple of years looking for the inland sea. In 1827, a former East India Company officer Thomas J. Maslen published this map of that inland sea in his book The Friend of Australia, which provided instructions for surveying and exploring the island-continent’s interior. It was a popular colonial belief that a continent the size of Australia must hold a major river…
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Charles Napier Sturt was a British officer and explorer of Australia, and part of the European exploration of Australia. He led several expeditions into the int...
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Outback NSW 2022. An historically significant part of the outback. The tree is blazed “JP 1845″ and marks the site of the grave of John Poole who was 2nd in command of Sturt’s almost quixotic quest to find the “inland sea” in this dry part of the second driest continent. Sturt was only about 300 million years too late. And John Poole paid for it with his life.
The World Wide Web is just the surface of our contemporary society.
The internet is not the wild west it once was. Before the internet was an established format it was unsafe, ungoverned and mysterious. There were no search engines and there was no way to get through it unless you knew specifically how and where to look. By comparison it reminds me a lot of our concept of “The Deep Web”. From what I know, it has no web or any user interface. You need to know specific URL’s to get through it and what is stored on the Deep Web can be dangerous and mysterious.
Not much is known about the Deep Web, or even if it is real. But as a society what we know about the Internet is that it is a powerful tool for connection, education and convenience. It provides a pathway to meet new people, make new friends and connect with distant family.
What has changed in our society due to the internet is the concept of personal privacy and the definition of oversharing. There is no break from work or school when you are always connected. There is no reliable way to distance yourself from certain people if they can find you, follow you or stalk you on social media.
But I have found consistent freelance work through social media to update my portfolio, I have made good friends online, and I am studying at uni through the internet too.
Exploration
Is there a place on earth that hasn't been seen? lets exclude the deepest depths of the ocean cause if we had seen all of that we probably would have found MH730. Like all these pictures of landscapes pop up on my dashboard and they are only the photographed, good looking places. Is there anywhere original to visit....
Does anyone go on expeditions anymore..... Is that still a job? I mean surely even the places no one has been to are still visible by satellite.... How exciting it would have been to be Charles Sturt just walking out of Sydney, heading due west and expecting to find sea. Does anyone have that privilege anymore to be told to go find out what is over there with no clue what they are going to find. I suppose people who explore the ocean are all thats left.
