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Krombit Cattle Station and the Whitsunday Islands

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October 4th 2007
G'day again all; I have to be honest; after Fraser Island I seriously thought nothing could beat that, especially as we then spent 2 days relaxing in the awesome town of 1770 ("Seventeen Seventy" on the map), but I was wrong, very wrong. We left 1770 on Sunday around lunch time and jumped aboard our bus to Krombit. After 3 hours of driving into the back end of nothingville I began to think ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Airlie Beach

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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