View from the Top of Mount Wellington

End of Tasmania and on to New Places

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July 13th 2008
Well my trip to Launceston didn't end up quite as I had planned it... I arrived in early afternoon in Launceston and headed straight to my hostel, which was a great little old house on the other side of the bridge. Great place, great people - I highly recommend it! But the penguin people kinda screwed me over, so I had no tour to go to... which made me quite angry as this was the only reas ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne

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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