Fireworks off the buildings!

New Year's Eve

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December 31st 2007
So we decided, along with everyone else, that we would spend New Year's Eve in Sydney Harbour! Along with thousands of others (mainly travelers), we spent the day queuing and then sitting in the sweltering heat waiting for one of the best fireworks displays we've ever seen. We decided to go for a point in the Harbour where we'd been before and had one of the best views of the Opera House and th ... read more

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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