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Island life

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September 17th 2008
Time had come to leave Australia, mainland anyway. We caught our trusty greyhound up to Townsville, a wonderful name for any settlement and then caught the ferry to Magnetic Island. Now as naming goes in Australia what you see is what it’s called usually but not here. Captain James Cook noted that his compass changed as he passed the island and so called it Magnetical Island, which was later sho ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Magnetic Island

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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