Baking Cookies

Queensland

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March 6th 2008
So the plan was to pick up my camper van and just start driving south down the East Coast of Australia. I used my trusty Lonely Planet guide to tell me if there was anything that might interest me in the next few days of driving before I'd head out that day. I knew that Australia was big, roughly the size of the US or Europe, ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland

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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