Argentinian power cuts

....Hence my reference up there to General Roca.

Some Argentines will tell you that the country was empty before the Spanish arrived or that the Mapuches just wandered nomadically over the Andes from Chile and went back again but we Brits made the same sort of erronious assertions about South Africa, back in the day.

Nick

is the right answer. Good job - I forgot to square the km.

Just as there are bits of the UK that are more densely populated than the UK - and indeed more densely populated than Monaco.

Quite. To say all of the UK is densely populated is rubbish.

I don't recall anyone saying that it was. The comment was "You're just used to living on very small and crowded island". And given the UK's population density puts it around 14th in the world that "crowded" seems to me unobjectionable.

If ypu fly the polar route to the USA you will fly over thousands of square miles of scottish bugger all.

Take scotland out of the equation and the UK s suddenly very crowded

We lived near Detroit at the time, and it happened one afternoon. Suddenly everything went silent, for four days. And being in summer, it was hot and humid. But we got through it. They said it was caused by a squirrel.