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Alice Springs to Adelaide

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January 10th 2005
We arrived in Alice Springs, the centre of Australia and the middle of a desert, to be greeted by rain and a closed town as it was a bank holiday. Luckily the flying doctors station was open for a brief tour, as was the excellent reptile centre where all the local creepies, crawlies and slidies were kept. Ness particularly liked the python! Luckily, the following morning we got out of town and ... read more

Oceania » Australia » South Australia » Adelaide

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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