9 Nov
2012
9 Nov
'12
4:34 a.m.
Paul Brislen wrote:
I've been told the best alternate landing place is in the South Island - Nugget Point, near Tiwai Aluminium Smelter - as it's the shortest route to Australia. That would be great I think.
Daft idea. Unless you're actually in Southland, it's a long way around ... and across a major fault/subduction zone. (The third largest earthquake in NZ's history (7.8) occurred in that part of the world (Dusky Sound) ... in 2009 ... plus a 7.2 in Fiordland in 2003.) It would also be putting over a thousand kilometres of idiots with backhoes and post hole diggers, not to mention a minor waterway known as Cook Strait between the cable landing and the bulk of the population it would serve. -- don