A-Z Geography

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Timperley, in Cheshire, England

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Unionville, Ontario (a town I've actually visited!)

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Venice Beach, LA, California

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Wilcannia, in the North West of New South Wales, where today's temperatures will be a perfectly autumnal 9C to 19C, & they won't get any rain this week.

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Xalapa, Mexico

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Yugoslavia, a former Eastern European country that has disappeared in the carve-up of that region after the Soviet union break-up.

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Zeehan, Tasmania, a mining town, called after Abel Tasman's ship, where later settlers found useful metals like Zinc, Lead, & Tin.

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Adelaide, the state capital of South Australia.

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Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland.

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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. The Capital of Australia, itself.

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I knew that was coming — and you probably knew this one too...

Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory, Australia

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Elizabeth, South Australia. Definitely not a capital, despite its Queenly namesake.

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Featherstone, a town in NZ near where some of the Rivendell scenes were filmed.

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Gulgong, NSW, a whole township which is a museum of its gold-rush days, & which used to feature on our $10 notes.

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Hampton, a very nice bayside suburb of Melbourne where my dad lived as a child.

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Ipswich, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia, named after the Ipswich in Suffolk, England. I have been to the original one, but not the Aussie one.