Brisbane

2nd March 2008

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March 2nd 2008
2nd March 2008 Today we woke in Darwin to the sunniest day we have seen so far in Northern Territory. We of course were flying out at midday however and had to check out of the Central Hotel by 10-30am. So after breakfast we went back to the Lamaroo Beach only a few hundred metres from the hotel for Dinah to take some more photographs of the coloured rocks on the beach. After a pleasant half a ... 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