National Museum
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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 nam... [read more]
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 nam... [read more] Blog: Canberra day 2
Date: February 3rd 2009
We went into town to have breakfast as we had seen a pancake parlour and it had to be visited...! Chris had a canadian pancake, apples and cream, and i had a traditional 3 tier with maple syrup and ice-cream - YUM! We walked to Lake Burley Griffin and round to the National Museum of Australia. It opened in 2001 and became an architectural landmark. It's unique deseign was inspired by a jigsaw pu ... read more
Date: February 3rd 2009
We went into town to have breakfast as we had seen a pancake parlour and it had to be visited...! Chris had a canadian pancake, apples and cream, and i had a traditional 3 tier with maple syrup and ice-cream - YUM! We walked to Lake Burley Griffin and round to the National Museum of Australia. It opened in 2001 and became an architectural landmark. It's unique deseign was inspired by a jigsaw pu ... read more
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Chris and Emma will be leaving the UK on the 17th November. Our first stop will be Hong Kong,then we are flying down to Oz. We are starting in Perth, flying to Alice Springs, Ayers Rock etc, spending Christmas and New Year in Adelaide with Chris Aunt and Uncle. We then travel around the coast up to Sydney. From there we fly over to New Zealand for 6 weeks. We then go back into Sydney to finish up the coast. Afetr this we are spending 2 weeks in Fiji and finishing off with a week in New York on our way home...this is our map: worldmapmaker=123... full info
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