'Brisbane Beach'

Brisbane

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December 19th 2007
Day 48: Concrete Jungle After not much sleep, with my drunken room mates coming and going throughout the night, I crawled out of bed early to check out and get to the bus stop. I was quietly quite relieved when it started to cloud over, with sunny skies such a rarity on the East coast of Australia at the moment, I think I'd have had a problem walking away from the beach if it had turned out to ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Brisbane

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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