Congratulations Professor Anya Reading!
RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
The concept of continental drift started with the Ancient Greeks. Translation of part of Strabos Ancient Greek manuscript based on Eratosthenes mapping of sub-continental scale, geographic and geologic units which he named sealstones, led to the discovery that he had employed a successful, rectangular co-ordinate, mapping method. As early as c.240220 BCE the detail of his data produced the first evidence of the continental drift of Italy from Corsica/Sardinia. Some 22 centuries later, Professor SW Carey convened an international symposium in Hobart in 1956 where he presented a global, hemispheric projection and included more detail of the same Mediterranean area. These comparisons, together with Ortelius claim in 1596 from a partly curved global Mercator projection that, it was as if the Americas were torn apart from Africa/Europe, provided a sequence of shoreline co-ordinate gathering peaks that transferred to evolving mapping methods and proved continental drift.
continental drift, Eratosthenes, sealstone mapping, Ortelius, SW Carey, global tectonics, Tasmania
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The Royal Society of Tasmania acknowledges, with deep respect, the traditional owners of this land, and the ongoing custodianship of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. The Society pays respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that Tasmanian Aboriginal Peoples have survived severe and unjust impacts resulting from invasion and dispossession of their Country. As an institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, the Royal Society of Tasmania recognises Aboriginal cultural knowledge and practices and seeks to respect and honour these traditions and the deep understanding they represent.
On 15 February 2021, the Royal Society of Tasmania offered a formal Apology to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
