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National Maritime Museum

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February 12th 2011
In Darling harbour is the famous National Maritime Museum. As we had passed this many times we decided to go and visit. We were able to get onto a submarine and a destroyer ship and look around. The submarine was called HMAS Onslow. It is an Oberon class submarine made in 1968. To get into the submarine you had to be very bendy and go through lots of hatches and holes that kept it watertigh ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney » Darling Harbour

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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