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Cairns & the Great Barrier Reef

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August 24th 2010
Geo: -16.9254, 145.775 Cairns was very hot on arrival, above 30 degrees, we got a shared mini bus to the hostel which turned out out to be run by a fellow Glaswegian and his Australian wife!! Small world, his Dad still lives at home and I'd just round the corner from me and he knows some of the same people, it's unbelievable. Cairns is so clean and groomed a ... 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