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Lost in the Australian Bush (Mt Bogong Nightmare!)

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February 18th 2005
I'm writing to tell you all about my huge adventure at the weekend, not quite a extreme as Blair Witch but heading there! Basically last Friday night six of us left Melbourne and headed east to Mount Beauty so that we could climb Mt Bogong (the highest mountain in Victoria) the following morning. After 5 hours of being squished in the back of a car we got to our motel in the early hours of ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria

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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