Broken Hill

Indian Pacific

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September 30th 2008
I left Sydney on Saturday on board the Indian Pacific train. The Indian Pacific train travels the width of Australia from Sydney on the west coast all the way to Perth on the east coast 4352km, it takes 3 days but luckily for me I was only going as far as Adelaide which is a short 24 hour trip. I was traveling in the Red class Daynighter seats, which basically means you get a reclining seat to ... 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