Looking out the front window at Mount Gambier in all its 190m (620ft) stature made reading this article on Today I Found out about the difference between hills and mountains all the more intriguing. Apparently there are objective matters of height, and more subjective matters of prominence in play. Not content with one contentious subject …
I enjoy seeing the different locations that crop on my Apple TV screen saver. The text is not usually there, it comes up when you touch the remote. Sometimes I guess the place, usually cities, other times like this I wouldn’t have recognized the Isle of Skye.
To take a quote from Douglas Adams and apply it to the subject at hand, the Pacific Ocean “is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to” the Pacific Ocean. This …
It’s sort of known that Australians use an anglicised pronunciation of the name of our highest mountain, Mount Kosciuszko. This article at Mental Floss provides the background behind the name of the man after which Mount Everest is named, including that the family name in question is pronounced ‘eve-rest’, not ‘ever-est’.
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