the gang

the wild wild west

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September 17th 2007
With the clocks back 2 hours, the trip becomes longer than it actually is. We fill up with petrol that we brought over in our jerry cans, and head towards Eucla. Eucla was established as a telegraph station in 1877 as part of the link between East and West. Once it was one of the busiest, yet loneliest, stations in Australia. The modern township was located on the Hampton Escarpment after the o ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia

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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