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Australia - Part 5 (Tasmania / Sydney NYE)

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January 5th 2010
Happy New Year Everyone! Welcome to our first blog of 2010. We too had a festive break (it’s tough work travelling) and are now back-to-business with a blog to cover our last three weeks... Since we last wrote we have covered a lot of ground: travelled around Tasmania for a week; spent Christmas Day in two states; been to Sydney for NYE and started a road trip back up the East Coast to Bris ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney » Opera House

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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