Did you know Australia is moving, literally? Just read an article see comments please.

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Ancient One Profile
Ancient One answered

Australia is on the move. The land down under is currently moving north by about 7 centimeters (2.75 inches) annually due to normal tectonic movements, and, as a result, the nation’s local coordinates are out of sync with those from the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) by over 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) — which, incidentally, is the average height of a kangaroo

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Cindy  Lou
Cindy Lou commented
I guess the Earth is continuing to do what it has been doing for billions of years (the continents moving). We are just measure and monitor it better now. Who knows where everything will end up. Everything is moving out in Space too and soon our Milky Way shill collide with another galaxy (6 billion years).
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Jann Nikka answered

That means we need to get ready to wave to Didge and family as they sail by.

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Didge Doo answered

At last science is beginning to catch up with what we, in Australia, already knew. Researchers still have a long way to go, of course, because Australia has already completed history's most incredible journey.

Those legends, popularised by Plato, about Atlantis sinking below the waves missed the mark. It didn't sink, it moved. From it's location in the Atlantic Ocean (between the Old and New Worlds) Atlantis travelled south around Cape Horn, dodged around New Zealand, and settled into its present location. There it waited for aeons before being re-discovered by Dirk Hartog and his ilk.

Scoffers will tell you this was not possible but they're forgetting one thing: continental drift. Since it was much closer to the Big Bang there was much potential energy still being unleashed so it only took a few million years for the journey to be completed.

Remember, you heard it here first. God bless Blurtit!


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That's quite a bit. Must mess with GPS.

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