Geraldton - Bureau of Meteorology

Geraldton to Pinnacles

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August 28th 2008
We booked a tour of the Bureau of Meteorology (weather station) - and it was free! We got to see all the instruments (old and new) that they use to check the weather. They have a weather balloon twice a day for information to send to Perth so the Forecasters can analyse it. The information is reported every 30 minutes to the airport for use by the pilots landing and taking off. When we were th ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Pinnacles

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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