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Subject: Re: QE2 Posted on: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:21:31 +1100

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:30:17 -0800, Jack Hamilton wrote:

> Joseph Coulter wrote:
>
> >OK I couldn't sleep so I was banging around on the computer went to Google
> >maps and Sydney harbour and what do I see there at the Cicular Quay but the
> >QE2. Or is it?
>
> Yes, it is. In Google Earth, you can see the call sign, GBTT.

> The QE2 and the Queen Victoria are now near Tasmania, according to
> . Well, as of
> yesterday.
>
> Is there a site that shows where ships have been in the past, so that
> you could find all the dates the QE2 had been in Sydney? A few days
> ago, and a year ago, according to the Cunard web site, but what about
> other times and other ships?

That dates the image to at least 2 years ago. If it was last year's visit of the QE2 to Sydney, the Queen Mary 2 could be found
tied up a mile or so east of QE2 at the Navy base.

It wasn't the 2005 visit, because it was overcast then (I have pictures of the QE2 I took 9th Feb 2005 showing the cloud).

So my guess is that the Google Earth images date to February 2006.