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To the Outback

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July 28th 2012
<span>Today we leave Port Douglas for Undara and the outback bush.<span> We packed our bags and had a last breakfast of egg, sausage, baked beans, fried tomato, and toast before we got going.<span> We drove on a small winding road up into the highlands that lay only a few kilometres from the coast.<span> Once up on the Atherton tablelands we headed southwest and past thr ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland

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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