RBG

Royal Botanical Gardens

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December 27th 2007
Today I decided to visit the botanical gardens which are right in the middle of the city. If I were to live here, this would be one of my favourite walks. I spent the whole afternoon walking in the RBG. The first pic of the Wollemi pine tree which was only discovered in 1994 in the wollemi national park. It is a prehistoric tree that was discovered by accident by a trekker in a remote part o ... read more

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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