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Day 39 - My Canadian Birthday

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March 20th 2010
Today Regan and I went to the Stockton Sand Dunes. Which you would think are in Stockton, that’s what we thought. Nope! They are about 30 minutes north of Stockton. So these dunes are the largest in the southern hemisphere and the move about 4 metres north every year. Strange. You think they could put a big fan at the north end to make them stay in one spot. So at these Stockton Sand Dunes n ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Newcastle

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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