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Onward Ho!

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December 29th 2005
So our time in Australia is coming to a rapid close (30 min to airport). Such a nice time. After cairns we headed south to Sydney where we performed the obligatory and quite fun Opera house tour. Then a few ferry rides and a trip to the aquarium where everything was "when we were on the Great Barrier Reef" type of comments. So I think the rest of our group rather tired of that. But we enjoyed ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne

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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