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Wineglass Bay, Freycinet Peninsula  
   

Wineglass Bay, Freycinet Peninsula

Apple Museum? No, we spent too long at the Jam Factory

September 30th 2005
As long as the good people of Japan keep up pressure on their leaders to buy woodchip from sustainable plantation forest rather than the beautiful and ecologically unique old-growth forests, unlike Europe, Tasmania may be saved from itself. Finally export revenues from exploitative forestry are under threat and are starting to be replaced by tourism. Apple museums and jam factories are springing u ... read more
Oceania » Australia » Tasmania

Australian Flag Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more
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