Kings Canyon oasis

Kings Canyon

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July 6th 2007
Rode the 300 kms to Kings Canyon yesterday and spent today walking all through it. It certainly is understandable why the area was (is) so important to the local people. The area contains several pockets of green, with “ghost” eucalyptus trees and pools hidden in deep clefts in the rock, in the middle of what is otherwise red-grey/green desert. The beautiful well used track around the rim of t ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » King's Canyon

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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