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...replaced the former Land and Water sections. Entries in the new section include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environment, and special notes. In the Government section, a new entry on dependent areas has also been added....

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...83-3238 Requesters outside the US Government may obtain a subscription from: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield, ... ...nment may .... ' purchase this publication in photocopy or micro- form from: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield, ... ...include area (total and land), comparative area, land boundaries, coastline, maritime claims, boundary disputes, climate, terrain, land use, environme... ...itional information may follow that is border- or frontier-relevant, such as maritime disputes, geopolitical questions, or irredentist issues. However... ... the United States f.o.b. free on board GDP gross domestic product GNP gross national product kW kilowatt kWh kilowatt-hour ODA official development a... ...ata is less than 0.5%) 0% none (a determined value, not the absence of data) Maritime claims: Inclusion of a claim does not necessarily constitute off... ...s: none; maritime dis- pute with Indonesia; territorial claim in Antarctica (Australian Antarctic Territory) Climate: generally arid to semiarid; tem-... ...16,072,986 (July 1987), aver- age annual growth rate 1.21% Nationality: noun Australian(s); adjec- tive Australian Ethnic divisions: 96% Caucasian, 4%... ...r; last election 1 December 1984 Political parties and leaders: govern- ment Australian Labor Party (Robert Hawke); opposition Liberal Party (John How...

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... religion Buddhism of the village community 107 From local religion to national faith 107 * Temple monks 108 * Ordination of monks 110 Po... ...d in its centre, the city of Lampang, and archived everything in a Finnish museum. I came from Finland, wealthy Scandinavia, a country that believes i... ...lopment has rendered locality, village and municipal communities, even the national state, old- fashioned; the Finnish elite is now integrating its co... ...ental state, part of the European United States. Finland also has the most museums, it has the world's largest collections of folklore, and research i... ...ned outside local communities, now even nation states. In the delocal era, national culture superseded local communities, and in international competi... ...77. Thai Traditional Medicine. A preliminary investigation. Ph. D. thesis, Australian National University. Canberra. Murdock, George Peter (ed.) 1... ...Pekka 1999. Fishermen No More? Livelihood and Environment in Southern Thai Maritime Villages. Studies of Contemporary Thailand 8. White Lotus Press, ... ...k, T. H. (ed.) 1967. Thailand. Social and Economic Studies in Development. Australian National Univ. Press & Duke Univ. Press, Durham, N.C. — 1970. ... ...lcock (ed.), Thailand: Social and Economic Studies in Development, 65–83. Australian National Univ. Press. — 1968. Address, Abuse and Animal Categor...

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...ed Cape Kennedy because Kennedy was the most virile President who created this National effort to get to the Moon. The most virile mission won. The... ...t romantic thing in the world is to walk along a sand-covered beach. Why the Australian aborigines coming out of Africa walked 20,000 miles along t... ...-created abstract lines and actual human conditions. After every war: the new national boundaries which are enforced; merely become a cause for the ... ...d there. And did not come out for 75,000 years. They still do not come out. Australian aborigines have no interest in the rest of the world. This... ...the way during the migration process… and those that never left Africa and the Australian aborigines; all the rest of us can trace our ethnic roots b... ...that the richest corporations can merge into even bigger, more powerful multi- national corporations; so more, and more money is sucked out of all the... ...for most of these British sailors to die before ever being released from their maritime slavery. 70% of all the sailors in the Royal navy were kille... ...The English God-given right to get drunk any time they pleased came from their maritime history of imported wealth. Sailors arriving home filthy ric... ...ish Colonialism come from? It came from watching the Dutch, and other smaller maritime Nations of Europe; becoming filthy rich from their Colonial E...

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... by a remarkable inci dent, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officer...

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...less no one has yet forgotten. Not to men- tion rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of co... ...days later, two thousand miles farther off, the Helvetia, of the Compagnie-Nationale, and the Shannon, of the Royal Mail Steamship Company, sailing to... ...it had not been re-enacted under similar circumstances. But, thanks to the nationality of the victim of the shock, thanks to the reputation of the com... ...in the United States. In virtue of my office as Assistant Professor in the Museum of Natural History in Paris, the French Government had attached me t... ...ch they had pierced through and through, as a gimlet pierces a barrel. The Museum of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris possesses one of these defensive... ...hipping and Mercantile Gazette, the Lloyd’s List, the Packet-Boat, and the Maritime and Colonial Review, all papers devoted to insurance companies whi... ...ive as Ned Land was, I must admit that he took a certain liking for me. My nationality drew him to me, no doubt. It was an opportunity for him to talk... ...XVIII VANIKORO THIS TERRIBLE SPECTACLE was the forerunner of the series of maritime catastrophes that the Nautilus was destined to meet with in its ro... ...nd I imagined that he intended, after doubling Cape Horn, to return to the Australian seas of the Pacific. Ned Land had cause for fear. In these large...

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...n- ers of Patents. Here is, in accordance with the name of the building, a museum of models of all patents taken out. I wandered through it, gazing wi... ...ure that name of Romanesque which it has assumed. The building is used for museums and lectures, and was given to the city by one James Smithsonian, a... ...n remained in force; but that con- federation was an acknowledged failure. National great- ness could not be achieved under it, and individual enter- ... ...e the States, at the cost of some fond wishes, agreed to seek together for national power rather than run the risks entailed upon separate existence. ... ...ion claimed by the South for this movement is a misnomer. If any part of a nationality or empire ever rebelled against the government established on b... ...ot by the laws of any individual State. All questions of admiralty law and maritime jurisdiction, and cases affecting ambassadors or consuls, are ther... ... ef- fect that decisions given by American judges as to inter- national or maritime affairs affecting English interests could not be trusted, because ... ...all her books direct from London, as do the West Indies. Whether or no the Australian colonies have as yet learned to reprint our books I have never l...

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...g all sorts of service, was at last employed as a government packet in the Australian seas. Being condemned, however, about two years previous, she wa... ...loo “game.” The French fight better on land; and not being es- sentially a maritime people, they ought to stay there. The best of shipwrights, they ar... ...th the listless, slovenly behaviour of these men; there was nothing of the national vivacity in their movements; noth- ing of the quick precision perc... ...paration has been made to send you to Sydney for trial. The Rosa (a small Australian schooner, lying in the harbour) will sail for that place in the ... ... of “tayos,” or 133 Melville friends, eager to form an alliance after the national custom, and do our slightest bidding. The really curious way in wh... ...ents, the Tahitians presented a far different appear- ance in the original national costume; which was graceful in the extreme, modest to all but the ... ... at one time in precisely the same stage of growth. The tree delights in a maritime situation. In its greatest perfection, it is perhaps found right o... ...eman is being measured for a coat. While we were amusing ourselves in this museum of curi- osities, our conductor plucked us by the sleeve, and whis- ...

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...ng this page by the fireside at Home, and hearing the night wind rumble in the chimney, that slight obstruction was the uppermost fragment of the Wrec... ...th little or no aid from the imagination, could yet see how the bodies had been turned, and where the head had been and where the feet. Some faded tra... ...RCANTILE JACK I S THE SWEET little cherub who sits smiling aloft and keeps watch on life of poor Jack, commissioned to take charge of Mercantile Jack,... ...ectable cookery of potatoes, and some other sensible things, adoption of which at home would inevitably be shown to be fraught with ruin, some- how or... ...ing small-sword exercise, broad-sword exercise, wres- tling, and other such feats. I went in, and some of the sword- play being very skilful, remained... ...g, with a wave of his sleeveless arm towards the window, im- Charles Dickens 184 porting, ‘Entertain yourselves in the meanwhile with the other curio... ...hed entirely in sage-green, from which I infer a defectively educated taste on the part of her respected parents, who were necessarily unacquainted wi... ... cheapness, cleanliness, convenience, or picturesqueness, can compare with the belted blouse. As to our women;—next Easter or Whitsuntide, look at the... ...entlemen themselves seemed conscious of their inferiority, and to know submissively that they could never hope to hold their own against the Pensioner...

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...itself,” said Mr. Webster, “is a very striking and peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons,... ...thousand persons, living here in the sea, adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering industry.” Report of Da... ... engrafted clerical peculiarities about him, imputable to that adventurous maritime life he had led. When he entered I observed that he carried no umb... ...rue mother of that now mighty colony. Moreover, in the infancy of the first Australian settlement, the emigrants were several times saved from starvati... ...g terrible events, — as the smitten tree gives birth to its fungi; but, in maritime life, far more than in that of terra firma, wild rumors abound, whe... ...the land in this matter, so the whale fishery surpasses every other sort of maritime life, in the wonderfulness and fearfulness of the rumors which som... ...ppily borne out by an official circular, issued by Lieutenant Maury, of the National Observatory, Washington, April 16th, 1851. By that circular, it ap... ...uthorities you can refer to, to test my accu racy. There is a Leviathanic Museum, they tell me, in Hull, England, one of the whaling ports of that co... ...specimens of fin backs and other whales. Likewise, I have heard that in the museum of Manchester, in New Hampshire, they have what the proprietors call...

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...d singular pleasure. Y our delightful books carry the imagi- nation into a maritime period so remote that, often as you have been in my mind, I could ... ...ioned spouse that the tailors of the fleet had evinced the gaiety of their national taste. She was habited in a gaudy tissue of scarlet cloth, trimmed... ...t unaccountable-looking creatures, suggested to me the idea of a pictorial museum of natural history, or an illustrated copy of ‘Goldsmith’s Animated ... ...cline of her life, as a lady of the old school, clinging as she did to the national cloth, in preference to the frippery of the Euro- pean calicoes. B... ... my most unexpected es- cape may be very briefly stated. The captain of an Australian vessel, being in distress for men in these remote seas, had put ...

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...ing before a British Judy meaning, it was sup- posed, the bulwark of our national liberties. My aunt, however, having had time to cool, while Peggot... ...ious events, as is the foundered Bark (if he may be al lowed to assume so maritime a denomination), who now takes up the pen to address you—it is not... ...me, ma am, to cull a figure of speech from the vo- cabulary of our coarser national sports floors me. To a man who is struggling with a compli- cated ... ...the land; and looking at the bullocks, as they came by, with the eye of an Australian farmer! David Copperfield Vol. II 405 CHAPTER 53 ANOTHER RETR... ...s if he felt himself the principal object of merit in a highly meritorious museum. That we, the neophytes, might have an excess of light shining upon ...

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...to work. And in proof that he was still willing, and had prof- ited by his maritime experience, he offered to sweep the floor 20 Cashel Byron’s Profe... ...y recollection of his habit of getting drunk at races, regattas, and other national festivals, by an accident at one of which he had met his death. Al... ...who had made a trip to London once. “Indeed!” said Lydia. “Were you in the National Gallery?” “The National Gallery! I think not. I forget.” “I know m... ...know many persons who never miss an Academy, and who do not know where the National Gallery is. Did you enjoy the pictures, Alice?” “Oh, very much ind... ...esterday. Miss Goff is a celebrated lawn-tennis player. She vanquished the Australian champion last year.” It seemed that Byron, after all, was someth... ...ng of a court- ier; for he displayed great astonishment at this feat. “The Australian champion!” he repeated. “And who may HE— Oh! you mean the lawn-t... ... hat, and carrying a roll of writing materials. “I am going to the British Museum to read,” said she. “T o walk!—alone!” said Lucian, looking at her c... ... sort. On my word, if you do not confess quickly, I will hurry away to the museum.” “I cannot find a suitable form of expression,” said Lucian, 102 C... ... Street, and Lydia tacitly concluded the conference by turning towards the museum, and beginning to talk upon indifferent subjects. At the corner of R...

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...er! Fitter! Stoker! Help I’m choking,” it gasped. “Never in the history of maritime invention has such a calamity over-taken one so young and strong. ... ... The Day’s Work His quarters began to look like an amateur natural-history museum, in spite of duplicate heads and horns and skulls that he sent home ... ... are no facilities for even the smallest repairs. —Sailing Directions H ER NATIONALITY was British, but you will not find her house-flag in the list o... ...m were rusted home; and, best of all, the hun- dred and sixty tons of good Australian coal in the bunkers had not diminished. 109 The Day’s Work “I d... ...kidars were what they call a Pioneer regiment, and the bag- pipes made the national music of half their men. The native officers held bundles of polo-... ...he team; and Hughes Who’s Who, alias The Ani- mal. He was supposed to have Australian blood in his veins, but he looked like a clothes-horse, and you ... ...s for lockin’ him up by some patent legal process he’ d found in a book o’ maritime law. An’ a’ that week South American freights rose an’ rose. It wa... ...m for an infinity of mistakes when a man begins to take liberties with his nationality; and I went down expect- ing things. A seven-foot dog-cart and ... ...ance, extravagant in its simplicity. It seemed that Hackman of the British Museum had been staying with him about ten days before, boasting of scarabs...

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...till though the one I sing, (One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality, I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O qu... ...sounds of children and of animals early in the day, I hear emulous shouts of Australians pursuing the wild horse, I hear the Spanish dance with castan... ...atch, pin, nail, shall be created before you. In large calm halls, a stately museum shall teach you the infinite lessons of minerals, In another, wood... ...ly shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space, You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal’d but ever alert, You past an... ...d Rome, With the Kelt, the Scandinavian, the Alb and the Saxon, With antique maritime ventures, laws, artisanship, wars and journeys, With the poet, t... ... o’er all the rest, For thee, the future. I’d sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality, I’d fashion thy ensemble including body and soul, I’d show a...