The Grampians profile

Flatland

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April 12th 2007
This is not to say that Australia is without its hills and mountains. I could tell you first hand, as I spent a day and a half hiking in the Grampians national Park, quite a large area of wave shaped mountains covered in native bush (well, mostly a bit burned, there was a major fire here last year). But the thing is that this area seems to come out straight from the flat plains that seems to be a ... read more

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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