How To Fax From Victoria To New South Wales

Is the South Australian border with Victoria and NSW a straight line?

Technically yes. The eastern border of South Australia with New South Wales and Victoria (and Queensland) is determined by 141° east longitude . However, that is not where it is marked on the ground and there have been a number of disputes associated with changes in the accuracy of measurement, complicated by the order in which the colonies split from NSW (which South Australia, Queensland, and Victoria, and of course, NSW, were all originally part). Recall that until 1901 these were separate colonies, not Australian states.The most famous of these was between South Australia and Victoria where a measurement error resulted in the proclaimed border on the ground being at least two miles and 19 chains (3.6 km) to the west (in Victoria's favor) of the more accurate measurement of the 141st meridian.The "Disputed Territory" as it was termed between the surveyed border and the actual 141st meridian contained over 500 square miles (1295 km²) of land, but after some 40 years was decided in Victoria’s favor, despite being technically in error. So now there is a dogleg on the ground (actually along the Murray River) to the west, so it is in practice not a straight line, as shown on Google maps below.

Who changed the name of Australia from New South Wales?

Australia was never called New South Wales. It has always been a state, and originally, Victoria and New South Wales were one state. They split in 1851, and the colony of Victoria (named after Queen Victoria who reigned at the time), was born.Australia has been known by the following names:New Holland (when the Dutch discovered the West Coast only)Eendracht Land (named after the first Dutch ship to ground on the west coast)Terra Australis Incognita - “Unknown Land of the South”Australia (when Britain finally claimed the entire country/continent in the name of Britain).

Has New Zealand ever been part of Australia?

Australia, as a political entity was formed by the merger of six British colonies in 1901. The people who negotiated this merger proposed that New Zealand and Fiji should also be part of it, but the governments of New Zealand and Fiji rejected the proposal on the grounds of cultural difference, so they did not become part of it.When the colony of New South Wales (which became the Australian state of New South Wales) was established, they defined it as including islands in the Pacific to the east of Australia, which meant that by definition it included New Zealand, Fiji and Rekohu (now known as the Chatham Islands), plus maybe some other places. However, New Zealand and Rekohu continued to be under the control of their native people (I’m not sure about Fiji). In the 1830s, New South Wales sent a governor to New Zealand to try to gain actual control off New Zealand. There he negotiated with Maori chiefs, and Englsh and French missionaries who were living among the Maori people, and they ended up signing a treaty called the Treaty of Waitangi. The Treaty of Waitangi possibly made New Zealand part of the British Empire, or possibly just gave the British Empire control over non-Maori settlements in New Zealand (depending on whose interpretation you go with). Either way, the Colony of New South Wales then became responsible for the British settlements in New Zealand (they didn’t have the power to have practical control over Maori communities at the time).Then 1 1/2 years later, in 1841, New Zealand was declared a separate colony.TL/DR: New Zealand was effectively part of New South wales for 1 1/2 years, before there was a political entity called Australia for New South Wales to be part of.