Booby Island Post Office :

If anyone, with better Googling abilities than mine,
can find an Oceania map with Booby Island location
(or even draw a dot where it lies) it would be appreciated.

I am having trouble with the author's suggestion that Timor
was the closest destination for shipwrecked tars.

Cartoon by the Australian, Mr. Monty Wedd.

Rod-

Try this link:
http://www.mobilegeographics.com/ti...desta665.png

C.

[Google Maps sat photos...
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-10....%20Island%29 ]

Here's part of a map...




Hope this helps.

I searched a little bit but found several Booby islands. By any chance does this help any.

http://www.lighthouse.net.au/Lights...y_Island.htm

Its a site about lighthouses but also has some stuff about the post office and a small map but its not on it. If this is the one you were looking for I can play with it some later and try to find a map on it if no one else has.

I do not think there is a spot on this globe that members of this forum cannot find!

Here's its location thanks to Google Maps - "A" marks the spot!

Fantastic. Gee I was using wiki,
I didn't even consider Google maps, I think the last
suits best, I needed a map location that was identifiable with the
northern coastline, cooktown, and port morseby are ideal locators.
Nigels was helpful also for the Friday Island I couldn't reference either.
Thanks All!

Eldorado ?

If you click on my Google Maps link, then choose "Satellite" and start to zoom out, by the time you get eleven or twelve levels out on the zoom slider, it gives a pretty interesting context to the cartoon story. Give the slip to the cannibals, pick up some food and water and head west...to Timor? Yeah, right...

I was curious about the topic so I rooted around on Google a big more. Came up with this link with a shot of the island itself.

http://www.lighthouse.net.au/Lights....htm#History

If I read you right, Collin,
I am having the same problem.
I am having trouble getting a handle on the story.
I am assuming the cannibals are referring to PNG natives.
Also, what the dickens is a Yankee whaler doing there

Even Port Essington is a fair voyage west.
If I had a dodgy boat, I would surely be heading down the
east coast of Oz.
It's all a bit strange.......

PS the map zoom slider is a cracker.

Thanks smauggie, neat.
offers some confirmation Timor was the port of choice,
If Bligh headed there, other options must have been considered poor.

On April 28, 2010 following in the footsteps of William Bligh when cast adrift from the Bounty, Don McIntyre and the crew onboard the "Talisker Bounty Boat" will sail for Tonga to find extra food and water, then set off to sail across the top of the Fiji and the Vanuatu Island groups, before setting course for the Queensland Coast and a landing at Restoration Island following four weeks at sea on light rations. They then sail north inside the Great Barrier Reef to Thursday Island, and across to Kupang and Timor.

El Dorado http://maps.google.com/maps?q=El+Do...6.383057&z=7

I should have known.....

Dew Drop, Fiddletown, Pleasant Valley, Grizzly flat,
Somerset, looks like a nice place to live, pardner.