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Polity Americas

Shoalwater Bay

Attested 1492 CE

River in Queensland, Australia

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Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at one moment in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Shoalwater Bay appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1492 CE

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