Australia Zoo Photo 2

Australia Zoo

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April 24th 2008
This week our travels have taken us to the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. We're staying in a nice apartment for the week and it's conveniently across the road from a nice white sandy beach! On Monday, we took a free shuttle bus to the Australia Zoo - one of the Sunshine Coast's more famous attractions. It's the zoo that was founded by Steve Irwin's father and now run by his wife. It's not a huge ... 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