Shrine of Remembrance

Tourist Time

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June 2nd 2007
Since arriving in Melbourne we have done pretty much no tourist stuff and not much sightseeing. True that this is mainly because we have been working most of the time and/or drinking and knocking about with other people that we've met. So we decided to have a day of pure tourist action... we whipped our cameras out and set of snapping pretty much everything that we could find. I have tried to put ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » City Centre

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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