Grain storage.

Day 75 Gladstone

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October 29th 2007
About 110 Km trip today to Gladstone. The port is the big focus of the place along with several large industries, eg. bauxite refining, alumina production, enormous power station which uses four million tonnes of coal a year, coal exports, clinker production (1.6 million tonnes a year), grain exports etc. ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Gladstone

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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