Prisoner 12348

Melbourne

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August 16th 2008
A lot of the stuff we did in Melbourne has already been included in the Canberra blog so instead of reapeating everything I'll just include the other stuff we did and make it a short one! As you can probably guess from the photos we visited Melbourne Gaol, again more convict history, but at this one we did the 'gaol experience' where we were given aliases, arrested and had the watch house exper ... 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