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RFDS airstrip

Section of the Eyre Highway used as an emergency landing strip
Nullabor (29 October)

November 2nd 2008
After leaving Cape Arid, we stopped for lunch at Norseman and then continued on to spend the night at a roadside camp stop just west of Caiguna. It rained again, but only lightly. The next day we continued eastwards, stopping at Eucla where we visited the Old Telegraph Station ruins, which are slowly getting covered by the sand dunes. We crossed the border and set our watches forward an hour an ... read more
Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Nullarbor Plain

Australian Flag 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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