The Australian War Memorial

December 3rd 2008
Journey to the Capital Words like 'boring'. 'dull' and 'uninteresting' had be banded around when we had asked what friends thought of Canberra, however we wanted to see what the capital city was like for ourselves. Canberra is 350km southeast of Newcastle and it took us 6 hours to drive there in Uncle Mike's car which he had kindly lent us. We underestimated how long it would take an ... read more

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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

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Michael Clapham

Lisa and Mike

Lisa and I are both on a belated 'year out' which will take in Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore, Australia, NZ, Chile, Bolivia and Peru. We are currently in Melbourne making the most of our last week in Australia :-( I'm afraid there has been a problem with this site from 7th-16th April and thus the majority of our photos for Milford Sound, Queenstown and The Glaciers plus the Nelson Region have been lost. Our rafting and skydiving photos were put on the week before so they are still there. Unfortunately we have no longer got the other photos on our camera - we burnt them on DVD and sent th... full info

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