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I've been hunting down geographic coordinates and after ferreting out enough creeks, caldera, ghost towns, radio transmitter masts, shipwrecks and the rest of the odd grab bag of terrestrial nodes in search of a sense of self-identity, the following keeps coming to mind:
“The forest of Skund was ... the only forest in the whole universe to be called -- in the local language -- 'Your Finger You Fool,' which was the literal meaning of the word 'Skund.'
The reason for this is regrettably all too common. When the first explorers from the warm lands around the Circle Sea travelled into the chilly hinterland they filled in the blank spaces on their maps by grabbing the nearest native, pointing at some distant landmark, speaking very clearly in a loud voice, and writing down whatever the bemused man told them. Thus were immortalised in generations of atlases such geographical oddities as 'Just A Mountain,' 'I Don't Know, What?' and, of course, 'Your Finger You Fool.'
Rainclouds clustered around the bald heights of Mt. Oolskunrahod ('Who Is This Fool Who Does Not Know What a Mountain Is?') ...”
— Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
Almost all of the article is copypasta from the US govt publication https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/seabee/explore/civil-engineer-corps-history/lcdr-edward-s--hope.html Happy Holidays and thanks for your efforts! --Mikedelsol (talk) 02:03, 4 December 2024 (UTC)