Stopping for a breather, looking east over a cloudy Mt Gambier

Morning has broken

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June 16th 2009
Sunrise over Mount Gambier, June 16th 2009. If you can drag yourself out at 7am into 2 degrees Celcius, and climb up to 190m elevation, you are rewarded with a sunrise like this. Most of Mt G is under white, with the TV tower, Mt Schank, and the odd wood chip flume emerging into a vast blue sky. The temperature on crater top is warmer than at ground level, and drier. Easy to get fingers fro ... read more

Oceania » Australia

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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