Boat houses

Melbourne

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March 17th 2008
Melbourne is hot. Very hot. We're talking Alice Springs temperatures here, just in a city rather than the middle of a desert. Adelaide, which is roughly at the same latitude but further towards the middle of the south coast, is having a heatwave at the moment with over two weeks of 35+ temperatures, and I think we're catching some of that here. Great for topping up the tan, but not so great if ... 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