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Central Wheat Belt

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March 18th 2014
We have left the woodlands district and entered the central wheat belt. Will really miss the salmon gums. We have passed through millions of acres of wheat stubble, and the country is very dry. Dams and creeks are bare. This is the head of the Swan and Avon rivers, don't know where they get their water from. We decided to bite the bullet and save ourselves about 100k of travel and took a dirt ... read more

Oceania » Australia

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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