Max mooted: No, pav=pavlova a meringue dessert claimed by both Australians and NZers to have been created first in their countries of origin. This ferocious argument has caused almost as much strife and ill-will as did a disagreement over the proper way to bowl a cricket ball!

Disagree. There is no argument over how to bowl a cricket ball. The Wicked Pitchers of the West in Oz just don't know what the right way is ... their new fast bowler is a veritable chucker.

Calling Antarctica "The Big Pav" is definitely an Ozzie expression. I was down there some years ago and I never heard either Deep Freeze or Scott Base people use the term. I suspect most of the others from paulb will fall into the same category.


The idiot also known as Capfka ...