The summit!

The roof of Australia

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April 28th 2007
It had been planned for a while, so we were not to be put off from our quest to climb Mount Kosiosko - Australia's highest mountain - by the torrential rain. We met our fellow explorers early on Saturday morning, and told ourselves that the weather could only get better. It didn't, but having driven all that way, we decided we might as well as least take the chair lift from Thredbo and 'have ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Snowy Mountains

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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