The Opera House

City of Icons

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December 2nd 2006
Courtesy of Qantas (who serve Byron Bay Cookie Company cookies on their domestic flights, making them clearly the world's best airline) we are whisked from Melbourne to Sydney in an hour and twenty minutes. Melbourne and Sydney, which a cursory look at an atlas would suggest are neighbours, are in fact over 700km apart, the same distance from London to, say, Hamburg. The route takes us over the ve ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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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