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Landmark Oceania wonder

Blue Mountains

3000 BCE – still standing

Eucalyptus-clad plateau west of Sydney, named for the blue haze of oil vapour from its forests

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Wikipedia

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Blue Mountains (New South Wales) on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Aboriginal tribes (3000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  2. Australian aboriginal hunter-gatherers (2000 BCE–1530 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Dharug (1600 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. New South Wales (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  5. New South Wales (UK) (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  6. Australia (1914 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Oceania at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Oceania

Rangitoto Island

1450 CE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

Malaysian Islamic states

Attested 1492 CE – 1600 CE

Trade route · Oceania

Lapita Expansion (Western Polynesia)

1500 BCE – 500 BCE

Conflict · Oceania

Musket Wars

1807 CE – 1845 CE

Landmark · Oceania

Borobudur

800 CE – still standing

Polity · Oceania

Austronesians

Attested 3000 BCE – 400 BCE

Conflict · Oceania

Wars of Majapahit

1293 CE – 1527 CE

Landmark · Oceania

Prambanan

850 CE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 2026 CE.

1000 BCE Teouma Lapita Cemetery 800 CE Borobudur 850 CE Prambanan 1000 CE Pura Besakih 1280 CE Wairau Bar 1293 CE Wars of Majapahit

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing
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