Every city has a claim to fame, Geelong066 (10)

Marvlous Melbourne

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April 20th 2008
Hi all, Left Adelaide last Monday and travelled to Melbourne via "the Great Ocean Road". We all agreed we are getting jaded. We have seen so many 'great ocean roads' between Australia and New Zealand that this section was maybe not the 'greatest ocean road' of them all. We did stop for a night at Warnnambool and went to a Maritime Museum that was quite cool. It was a seaside village fr ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » South Yarra

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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