At Pilliga Pottery

Coonabarabran, NSW and Warrumbungles

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October 11th 2008
Our final stop was Coonabarabran, the Astronomy Capital of Australia. The town is the closest town to the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian Telescope, the largest optical telescope in Australia, on Siding Spring Mountain. The observatory is at the centre of a magnificant Virtual Solar System drive. The virtual solar system is a scaled model of our Solar System that's 38 million times smaller than outer spac ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales

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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