"And always it is the same; the slender palm trees leaning over the white sand, the warm sun sparkling on the waves as they break on the inshore reef, the outrigger fishing boats drawn up high on the beach. This alone is real; the rest is but a dream from which I shall presently awake"

Arthur C. Clarke 1964

This website is dedicated to the Memory of Sir Arthur C. Clake by Dr Kavan U. Ratnatunga.
I first met him in 1968 as Patron of the Ceylon Astronomical Society he that he had founded in 1960.
He inspired me in to Astrophysical Research. That was my joy for 26 years.
I am now into Numismatics and find that Arthur initiated Maritime Archaeology in Lanka with the discovery of Treasury in 1962.

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