Posted by Jonathan Labaree on September 05, 2002 at 13:31:38 from 207.5.198.231 user JLabaree.
In Reply to: Sinbad's Creek (was"The Roaring Donkey") posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on September 05, 2002 at 10:41:01:
Andrew,
I guess AR had to invent Sinbad's Creek to give something to distract Titty so they would end up being Egyptians in the Red Sea.
Has the water level changed a bit over that past 70 years? A quick look at the ordinance survey (on Multimap.com) makes it look as though the explorers' map is slightly off in a couple of areas. The biggest discrepancy appears to be around the northwest passage bit where it looks like there are a number of small islands or sandbars where they mapped a large island (I forget now what they named it). There seems to be other little differences as well. I seem to remember a thread about this a while ago, but couldn’t find it on the forum, so I apologize if this has already been covered.
- Jonathan