In the Weipa campsite

East Coast South to North

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July 19th 2011
Tuesday 19th July 2011 Weipa Rest Day Today we’ve been for a drive around the “suburbs” of Weipa. It is a strangely spread out town, as if when they designed it they said “Here we shall be the dwellings, here the business centre, and here the industrial area, none too close to the other” and then over the years the bits in between have been filled in higgledy piggledy. We drove out to th ... read more

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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