At Darwin Harbour

The last leg...

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May 16th 2007
On Thursday night we stayed at a small place called Victoria River, which wasn't a particularly interesting place and we drove for a total of 803.3 km. We have seen several bush fires the past three days, even in areas catergorised as low risk. They didn't burn as much as I had expected, maybe that is because the bush land is quite scarce in these areas. On Friday we made our way up to Darwin, ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory

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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