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Day Twenty

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October 6th 2008
A beautiful morning in Kakadu. It is a bit cooler and the smoky haze from the day before has gone. Ro has gone fishing on a charter that left at 6am. (Ro will blog about his trip later). The rest of us are going to Jabiru and then onto to Ubirr to look at some Aboriginal rock art. Some slight hitches involving forgotten bathers, me and petrol again, and maps left behind, meant that it took us l ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Kakadu National Park » Cooinda

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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