Gravel Highway

Tasmania to Melbourne

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September 22nd 2008
Sunday 9/21 was mostly a travel day. We drove from Hobart up through the mountains of central Tasmania to the north coast. We saw plenty of snow along the road. We were on gravel roads for about 40 miles or so. We went beyond Devonport to a small town called Burnie to look for platypus. We were not successful. We returned the rental car, which normally would not be a monumental event. In th ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne

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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