Black Swan

Into Adelaide and on the road again....

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December 24th 2008
Entry by Rich Friday 19/12/08 After a relatively good night's sleep I woke with the train at a standstill in the small town of Port Augusta. This was our last scheduled stop before reaching Adelaide and we had about six more hours of the journey left. We had a light breakfast and watched the South Australia landscape going by. The Ghan had a couple of brief stops to allow freight t ... 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