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East Coast Stop Eleven (Final Stop in Australia!) - Cairns

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August 1st 2013
So here we are – our final stop in Australia😞 before moving on to New Zealand. We only had a short drive from Mission Beach to Cairns - only around an hour and a half altogether. We got to Cairns way too early to check in, so we parked up in the town centre and had a walk around the shops for a while. We stopped off at the Commonwealth Bank so that we could sort out a travel card for New ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns

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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