Road to Somerset Beach

East Coast South to North

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July 24th 2011
Sunday 24th July Cape York - To The Tip Part 2 Cape York is a populous place these days, with a well-worn trail to get there, quite unlike our Peugeot trip of 2009 when on the Tanami Track in particular, we didn’t see many other people. After the Tip, we drove to Somerset Beach for lunch, past the site of the Somerset homestead – nothing left there now. Somerset Beach is very pretty, and ... 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