Wreck of Australian Warship HMAS Sydney Found?

Mendy writes "Tim Ankers, a British archaeologist, claims to have found the wreck of the HMAS Sydney, lost with all hands in the Indian Ocean during World War II. He says that he's done this from the comfort of his home using software he wrote called Merlindown, which can analyze satellite photographs at different wavelengths to 'peer 75 meters into the earth and 16,000 meters beneath the seas.'"

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Still subjects of the Queen

[scooter.higher]

The Queen is still Head of State (or Monarch if you prefer) for Australia and Canada. So no, Australia doesn't have a navy so much as the Queen has naval forces in Australia. Why do you think the names of all the ships begin with "HM"?

In the World Factbook, scroll down to "Executive branch" on these pages:
Australia
Canada

The same information could easily be found in other places, pick your source of preference.

Of course you could argue that Canada gained it's independence in 1982, but the fact remains that it is still a Commonwealth Realm.

There. All of that and not one reference to Homer Simpson's comment about "America junior."