europe/australia

europe australia, originally uploaded by julienpaul.

I have always had the impression that the south of Victoria, or perhaps Tasmania, had a similar climate to Normandie, France, and could be found at a similar, though inverted, latitude. The same went for Rome and Sydney. And yet, one day, curious on google maps, I found out that nearly all of Europe has a higher latitude than Australia and that Sydney has a latitude closer to Morocco and Algeria. It certainly explains the weather here.... which is much colder than any point of Australia can offer.