In these febrile and uncertain times, a man likes to be able to fall back on certain, well, certainties - the depressing ones like death and taxes, sure, but also the slightly happier stuff like the certain knowledge that if you spend enough time looking at maps you will eventually come across an island that looks like a house, or a horse, or a cock, or a horse cock, or one of any number of other amusing things.
I think I spotted the thing I'm about to share with you while watching this video about fascinating border anomalies in Australia, including the excellent snippet that despite Tasmania being an island, it and Victoria share a land border, albeit a very short one. While the whole video is worth a watch, the thing that caught my eye did so very early at about 11 seconds in, and it is this: the largest island in the Bass Strait, Flinders Island, situated off the north-east corner of Tasmania, closely resembles one of Tove Jansson's Moomins. See for yourself:
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