Encyclopædia Britannica once didn’t recognise uncolonised lands

posted by John Lampard on Friday, 13 November, 2009 to the comment subset

While people continue to question the integrity of Wikipedia, early editions of one of its print predecessors, Encyclopædia Britannica, had a curious method – to say the least – of selecting what information it would publish.

Australia and New Zealand: Despite the fact that both lands had been discovered their existence was not recognised in the Encyclopaedia until they had been colonised.

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