Learning about volcanoes

At the Blue Lake

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April 18th 2006
Introduction We took a day trip to Mount Gambier on Tuesday. Mount Gambier is a major regional centre, located roughly half way between Melbourne and Adelaide. It has a population of about 25,000. The major draw card for us was that this region had active volcanos about 4-5000 years ago with major activity about 20-30,000 years before that. The result was a gently undulating country si ... read more

Oceania » Australia » South Australia » Mt Gambier

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

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