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Thank you, an easy one.

Which future British monarch would be mentioned in despatches for his actions at the Battle of Jutland?

The future King George VI. I seem to remember that he was a naval officer during WW I.

2 minutes ?

YHC

Thanks Wodrick.
Who first pegged out the corner of Queensland, Northern Territory and South Australia. but got it wrong? How did he get it wrong?

That would have been Poepple(sp?), and he got it wrong as his chain was worn.

Correct John. Augustus Poeppel was the surveyor, and because the links in his chain were worn it was a couple of centimetres too long, resulting in his peg being incorrectly located in a salt lake.
At one stage I worked in the NSW Lands Department bilding. In an external wall is a brass plug which is the height reference for NSW, and set in the floor inside the building are brass plugs, against which surveyors were required to check their chains at regular intervals. The building is now a hotel.

What is the four letter ICAO location indicator for Hanan International Airport?

John Hill wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 01, 2023 7:30 pm

What is the four letter ICAO location indicator for Hanan International Airport?

If I get another bash I was thinking of a four letter ICAO for an airport. Never heard of this place and never been there but looked it up. OK.

Hanan International Airport is the airport on the island of Niue which is in the Pacific approx 19S 167W.

The ICAO location indicator for Niue is NIUE which is somewhat unique in that I have been unable to find another location anywhere where the ICAO indicator is the same as the geographic name of the location.

A somewhat charming location where the population raises 10% when a 'plane arrives!
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I believe there is an ICAO waypoint called GAFA which is indeed in the Great Australian F#ck All

One of the perks of being involved with reconstituting the aeronautical facilities and procedures in various parts of the world was the dreaming up of acceptable waypoint names. (Afghanistan, Iraq, North Korea et al) Needless to say they were usually changed soon after we left. However, are ROSI, GARY and ROSI still used over A'stan?

"I believe there is an ICAO waypoint called GAFA "

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A departure form OOL includes 'Luvly' 'Meta' 'Maids'....

Fox3WheresMyBanana wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 02, 2023 8:16 pm

I believe there is an ICAO waypoint called GAFA which is indeed in the Great Australian F#ck All

There’s one called Happy, strangely it’s in the middle of the North Sea

No body has posted for a while, so I will jump in.

What is known as London's "railway for the dead"?

Well, the Railway for Zombies would be the southern branch of the Northern Line, based on my observations of the passengers.
Close enough?

No, but it's dedicated London terminus was near the northern line, south of the Thames.

Giggled as I didn't have a clue; interesting history.

Yes, I thought the same.

I first heard of it in an article, BBC website?, some time ago.

It came up in discussion, at dinner, on Friday in relation to repurposing an old burial ground in Finland.

A clue.

Singles were only sold for the dead, returns were only sold for the living.

Yup. A company (?London Necropolis Company was it?) had a premises at Waterloo station (next to where the Epsom trains now run, but no real connection) and ran frequent private trains to Brookwood where they had a humungous graveyard. Two stations, naturally, one for first class, 'tother for second class corpses.
Died out at the start of World War 2 when bombed, ISTR.