Rainforest

Tropical North Queensland

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December 7th 2006
Well, I arrived in sunny Australia. It was a grueling 30 hours of travel, but I had a nice 2 days of relaxation (and catch up on jet lag) at my aunt and uncle’s house outside of Sydney before I hopped another plane to tropical north Queensland. I chose to base myself in Cairns, a city of about 100,000, due to its proximity to the Great Barrier Reef and the rainforest. The landscape was very d ... 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