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Tasmania

Australia's Geekiest Big Thing

October 3, 2006 at 9:19 AM | 0 Comments

By now you've got the idea that Australia likes to build big things: bananas, koalas, potatoes that look like dino poop, the list goes on. Beauty or practicality are completely unimportant. This website catalogues a huge number of these useless big things that nonetheless tend to attract their fair share of tourists.

But would you put this on your list: the University of Tasmania's big slide rule? If you must (and you're part of the new wave of geek tourism) then head to the university's Department of Maths and Physics in Hobart, Tasmania's pretty capital. Obviously you could go to the Cadbury chocolate factory or visit the Salamanca Markets or even take a cruise while in Hobart, but ... surely a giant slide rule's the way to go.

[Photo: weaker vessel]