Cradle Mountain Tasmania

Third stop: Australia

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March 15th 2008
We land to Melbourne, stay there few days and took a boat to Tasmania for 6 days. We went to St Helens first, stayed in a campsite, had a freezing night in our new tent. St Helens, good place for retired people and fishing, which we didn't know. The next day we decided to leave for Hobart (Capital of Tasmania). We hired a car to travel to the west, where the national parks are. Because of our very ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Tasmania

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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