Lilliput and Blefuscu

Jonathan Swift describes the island of Liliput ( in the original English: Lilliput ) in the novel Gulliver's Travels. Live here tiny people, the Lilliputians.

Dr. Lemuel Gulliver wakes up after a shipwreck on the coast of Lilliput and is captured, although it twelve times as large as the " mountain people " as the inhabitants. The Lilliputians at war for years with the inhabitants of the island of Blefuscu because of the question of how a boiled egg is aufzuschlagen: at the tip or at the blunt end. The Lilliputians are of the opinion that it was aufzuschlagen on the sharp side, the Blefuscaner advocate the thick side. This parodied the conflict of the Anglican and the Catholic Church on the understanding of the Eucharist.

The island of Liliput be located adjacent to the island of Blefuscu between the Australian south coast and Tasmania. After the English cartographer Herman Moll, who produced the maps of Swift's novels, the two islands lie south of Sumatra, so in the eastern Indian Ocean ( see figure).