Finding Nemo

Kangaroos and Koalas

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February 18th 2006
G'day from the sun drenched, golden beached happy go lucky whale of a nation that is Oz...and it is huge (and boy do they drink beer here! Just google a Darwin Stubby and you'll see what I mean). So where does one start with such a place...well we started in Sydney which Mel and I both found a little anticlimactic (no sniggering from the back of the class please). Yes there is the Opera House, the ... read more

Oceania » Australia

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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