Author Archives: Peter Mungo Jupp

Mega-Tsunamis, Chinese Junks and Port Phillip Bay

The Chinese junk

Feb 10, 2012 The Australian Bunurong tribe recorded the catastrophic formation of Melbourne’s Port Phillip Bay in their mythology. “Plenty long ago, you could walk dry foot from our side of the bay to Corio. Then, in a night of … Continue reading

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The Lake Victoria Cosmic Massacre

Lake Mungo

Jan 15, 2012 Is there a connection between Australia’s lunettes and Carolina’s oval bays? Scattered around the shoreline and erratically buried in the sand dune lunettes of Lake Victoria lay an estimated 15,000 aboriginal bodies of uncertain age. Archaeologist Colin … Continue reading

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Gold, Glamour and Destruction

Sunspot 798 produced an X-17 solar flare on September 7, 2005

  Oct 28, 2011 Could the Carrington Event of 1859 have had broader effects than originally assumed? Imagine your posturing self-assurance as you parade on the dockside at Port Melbourne, dressed in the finest fashions the colony of Port Phillip … Continue reading

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