The watering hole

Uluru and the Great Barrier Reef

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January 6th 2008
Jamie: Back on the road again! After sweltering for a few days in Perth, we headed to Australia's red centre for an even hotter couple of days. As we got of the plane, the hot breeze felt as if we were stood in front of a giant hairdryer. We'd come to the Ayers Rock Resort. The rock was named by the first European explorers after a South Australian premier who'd never been there. To the Aborigines ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Port Douglas

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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