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ORIGINAL: JeffK

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

There is a thread on the political subforum of a sports forum I belong to about this. Someone jsut posted "Australia results in +2 troops per turn and is easy to defend. Solid strategic move."

I was tempted to respond that Darwin is at the end of a long, inconsistent supply line and is easily cut off from the Australian supply centers but figured that no one there would understand...

Got a nice railway now.

ORIGINAL: Alfred
Not only is there now an all weather railway link to Adelaide

REPAIR works on the Central Australian Railway have blown out again, with interruptions to the important export route set to stretch beyond two months. The railway has been broken north of Katherine, in the Northern Territory, since December 27 when flooding washed away a bridge.............. revealing it would be February 29 before traffic returned to the route.

ORIGINAL: Alfred

In the longer term my money is on the Marines for Darwin coming from Okinawa. In the long run there will be no marines based at Okinawa and I seriously doubt they could fit many more marines on Guam than the currect relocation plans envisage.

Alfred

ORIGINAL: Alfred

Darwin's transport links are now much better that they were in WWII. Not only is there now an all weather railway link to Adelaide and from there all points to the developed south east corner, there are now two all weather sealed roads to Darwin. The Stuart Highway down to Adelaide which during WWII was built up by American engineers as a gravel road plus the coastal highway hugging most of the West Australian coastline is now also fully sealed. The coastal highway also provides access to the big resource ports built in the last 40 years, which ports did not really exist in WWII. Then there is also, if necessary the inland road connection from Queensland which meets the Stuart Highway.

Alfred

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

ORIGINAL: Alfred

Darwin's transport links are now much better that they were in WWII. Not only is there now an all weather railway link to Adelaide and from there all points to the developed south east corner, there are now two all weather sealed roads to Darwin. The Stuart Highway down to Adelaide which during WWII was built up by American engineers as a gravel road plus the coastal highway hugging most of the West Australian coastline is now also fully sealed. The coastal highway also provides access to the big resource ports built in the last 40 years, which ports did not really exist in WWII. Then there is also, if necessary the inland road connection from Queensland which meets the Stuart Highway.

Alfred

I Google Imaged several hundred photos of Darwin yesterday and was surprised to see a tidy, modern, friendly-looking small city.

Folks picturing fever swamps surrounding a tent camp ought to go take a look. It's somewhere I'd like very much to visit someday.

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Looks like the Aussies found a way to slow down USMC immigration into their country. [;)]





Reminds me of that scene from Blazing Saddles, where the Sherriff and the Cisco Kid slow down a group of marauding gunmen by erecting a tollbooth in the middle of the desert.

"Ah, horse****! Someone go back and get a ****load of dimes!" [:D]

ORIGINAL: Itdepends

If you want to make them feel welcome- not calling them yanks would be a good start [:'(]

ORIGINAL: noguaranteeofsanity

There is at least one thing to make the Marines feel more welcome in Darwin, the local ice hockey team, who are the self-proclaimed undefeated world champions, after all of their opponents have failed to show up, possibly due to the lack of ice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Iffu6JrN4

ORIGINAL: Reg

I Google Imaged several hundred photos of Darwin yesterday and was surprised to see a tidy, modern, friendly-looking small city.

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

I spent a week there one afternoon.