Koala

Animal encounters!

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March 22nd 2007
I'm now in Brisbane and have been quite busy since my last blog. On the first day here me and Amy went to the Australia zoo, which is the one made famous as being home to the crocodile hunter Steve Irwin. Its unlike any other zoo i've been too although its quite small the place is really interactive and you can go inside the enclosures of some of the animals such as dingos and koalas. I went roun ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane

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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