Sea of 1770

Where the bluddy hell have we been for a year?

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August 10th 2007
Okay, I've started writing our travel blog again.......and should offer a quick explanation of where we've been for the last year, what with it being more than 1 year since the publication of our last blog!! We'd gotten as far as Darwin when I last wrote. Between June 2nd and June 20th 2006 we travelled from Darwin into the middle of the country and over to Cairns on the east coast. This took no t ... 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