Lake Birabeen

Christmas in Oz

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January 6th 2009
Happy New Year! Hope everyone had a great Christmas and all the best for 2009. We believe you are all experiencing a rather cool snap and see temperature figures are usually preceeded with a 'minus'. We are quite the opposite here. We have had a fairly warm Christmas with temperates generally around the 30 mark and even a few days where the mercury has tipped 37 - oh by the way that is celcius ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland

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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