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Lilliput is said to extend 5,000 blustrugs, or 12 miles in circumference. [8] Blefuscu is located northeast of Lilliput, across an 800-yard (730 m) channel. [9] The only cities mentioned by Swift are Mildendo, [10] the capital of Lilliput, and Blefuscu, capital of Blefuscu. [11]
Lilliput Glacier, the smallest named glacier in the Sierra Nevada of California; Lilliput Mountain, a mountain on the British Columbia-Alberta border in the Canadian Rockies; Lilliput Nunataks, three nunataks on the eastern side of Graham Land, Antarctica; Lilliput, Victoria, a parish in the County of Bogong, Victoria, Australia
Natatolana lilliput is a species of crustacean in the family Cirolanidae, and was first described by Stephen John Keable in 2006. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] The species epithet, lilliput , is from the Lilliput of Gulliver's Travels , and refers to the specie's short antennae.
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Many sequels followed the initial publishing of the Travels.The earliest of these was the anonymously authored Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput, [6] published 1727, which expands the account of Gulliver's stays in Lilliput and Blefuscu by adding several gossipy anecdotes about scandalous episodes at the Lilliputian court.
Gulliver's Travels, originally Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire [1] [2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.
It overlooks the Great Australian Bight about 585 kilometres (364 miles) north-west of the Adelaide city centre and about 34 kilometres (21 miles) west of the town centre of Ceduna. [2] [3] By one reading of the book Gulliver's Travels, the hundred would be the closest inhabited place to the location of the fictitious island of Lilliput [4] [5]
Significant sections of South Australia and New South Wales are unincorporated, that is, have no defined local government, along with the ACT and smaller sections of Northern Territory and Victoria. Brisbane is the only state capital city with its respective LGA ( City of Brisbane ) covering a significant portion of its urban area.