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Port Augusta

part of Port Augusta, near the station
The Alice - A Tale of Two Towns

February 14th 2009
It was only as I drove out of Melbourne on Saturday Feb 6, that I found out that while I’d been having a good time the night before and doing the final cleaning up of the unit I was renting, to move out, that Victoria had had the worst bushfires ever. At the time they were saying something like 68 people dead, but this number is still climbing and last I heard sat at over 180. The destruction ... read more
Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Alice Springs

Australian Flag 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
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