The Gahn

Tennant Creek - Alice Springs

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October 23rd 2008
05:30 saw a lovely outback sunrise all red and violet, the colours were spectacular. We have not entered the red centre where the soil has changed from teracotta to bright red. There is alot of low scrub land with clumps of trees it seems that where the water holes are the trees are bigger and more dense, the further away the tree is the smaller it gets almost to the size of clumps but they ar ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Alice Springs

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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