Kakadu - Ubirr Rock view

Darwin and Kakadu National Park

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May 14th 2007
...and we are back from the wilderness. Three days of basic camping in the middle of the Kakadu NP was quite an experience! I'm underlining the word basic because it was really, really basic. To give you an idea of the toilet: a hole in the ground behind a bush around here known as dunny . 😊 Ha-ha! But we survived and feel as real 'bushmen' by now. For the rest - this place ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Darwin

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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