From East to West - Great Dividing Range

Carry On Up The Alps

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January 30th 2008
It's amazing what a hot shower and a couple of bottles of riesling can do for you. Clean and refreshed, we departed Jindabyne to head for a wilderness camp just beyond Threbdo. By "just beyond" I mean 6 km uphill to Dead Horse Gap, then 10 km down hill to Leather Barrel Creek - our home for the next two nights. Sounds innocuous, but we had decided to walk to the summit of Mount Kosciuszko, the ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Tumut

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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