Jurien Bay with Mum

Geraldton to Pinnacles

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August 28th 2008
We went on a tour of the Bureau of Meteorology at Geraldton. This was out at the airport. We looked at the old instruments and the new ones. We got to see the ground thermometers, one of which is a metre under the ground. It measures soil temperature and the findings are used by the local farmers as to when they should plant their crops. They set off a weather balloon. We watched it get ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Pinnacles

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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