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Undara Day 2, Lava Tubes

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July 30th 2012
<span>Today we took the Volcanic Valley Tour, a half-day trip around a number of lava tube sites.<span> It started at 08:00 so we had an early bush breakfast with everything.<span> The tour guide told us about the geology and geography of the landscape in the national park and surrounding areas.<span> It turns out that the east coast of Australia is a long fault line tha ... 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