The track to the top - not exactly mountaineering...

Mt. Kosciuszko - roof of Australia!!

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April 30th 2005
On Friday we got up too late for a change and therefore had to alter our original plans for a long hike that day. We went to the Info center in Cooma and they told us it was going to rain in the afternoon and snow at night and we might not be able to hike also the next day :-( So we started with alternative plans for that day and we made a driving tour in the national park of the Snow Mountains. ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales

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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