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Thursday Island

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October 22nd 2007
Hello,Carissa and I have arrived in one piece after a days travel to the extreme north of Australia after a brief tour via Cairns. Thursday island is as predicted pretty warm with high temperatures and humidity, having said that you do however get a sea breeze most of the time and mangos grow on pretty much every tree in time and they are just about to come into season which is just aswell seeing ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland

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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