Sydney Harbour Bridge

Sydney

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January 23rd 2011
Hello again. It was raining quite heavily when I got to Sydney - probably not a bad thing but I didn't fancy dragging by bag round the wet streets of the city so I went to check into the hotel to dump my bags. By the time I'd done that the rain had stopped but it was a cloudy day and it didn't feel all that warm to me. Anyway - I only had a day and a half in Sydney so decided that getting a 24 hou ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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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