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Brisbane and the debatably named Sunshine Coast

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July 28th 2008
So 14 hours on a train took us over the boarder and into Queensland and Brisbane. The LP says that Brisbane is the sunniest state capital in Australia and that Queensland has 300 days of sunshine a year: we were feeling hopeful - surely it's not called the Sunshine Coast for nothing. Preconceptions and first impressions were soon shattered as, after a few hours of warm sunshine, clouds rolled ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane

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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