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April 13th 2012 Today we left Denmark and set off west across the rest of the Southern forest country. Some of these areas were only opened up for and logging and settlement in the 1930's. Australia frequently feels like a young, raw sort of country (and this from a Yukoner!)
The karri trees were beautiful, I'm posting a picture of one shedding its bark, which is a means of self defense, to annually rid
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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 COMING SOON HOUSE ADVERTISING ads_leader_photo_bottom