A desolate mining camp of dongas

We get to Ningaloo Reef

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October 24th 2012
Ningaloo Reef has been in the news due to attempts to explore for oil next to it. However we first had to travel out of the Pilbara with all of its road trains, mining camps and heavy machinery. On a number of occasions we had to pull off the road in order to let very wide loads get past us. Exmouth is a strategic centre with an Air force Base, a Naval communications centre and an Army Base. ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Ningaloo Reef

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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