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Exploring Kununurra

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October 8th 2012
The first thing we had to do after entering WA was to put our clocks back 1 ½ hours. What we did not expect was that the sun now rose at 5am and set at 5:30pm! Our camp site was right on the edge of Lake Kununurra, giving us a view of everyone who fails to catch a fish. (Greg included.) Kununurra surprised us. It is a lovely country town on the edge of a lake, but also surrounded by typica ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Kununurra

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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