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Australian Maritime Museum

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March 26th 2014
It was raining again in Sydney today and more is in the forecast. This is not what we expected when Maggie and I planned this visit, but we are adjusting. It seemed like a good day to visit a museum and one of the museums that we like here is the Australian Maritime Museum, so and we spent the day there. Appropriately you can get to the museum by water and so that's what we did. I don't kn ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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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