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Aboriginal rock art at Ubirr

Thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) - now extinct
Kakadu-du-du

September 23rd 2006
Kakadu National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage site and Australia's largest national park, not to mention the backdrop to parts of "Crocodile Dundee". It encompasses a variety of different habitats from wetlands to sandstone escarpments, and boasts over 10,000 species of insect, a third of Australia's bird species, and more reptile species than can be found in all of Europe, in amongst umpteen o ... read more
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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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