The views of Melbourne coming in

I Guess I'm 17 Again!?

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January 12th 2009
After our few days in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, we decided to make the fun seven hour drive from Canberra to Melbourne and I had my first taste of driving in Australia this time around. The drive from Canberra to Melbourne is quite boring- you drive through miles and miles of bush land with nothing really significant to see. We arrived in Melbourne late in the afternoon ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne

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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