Sunset

Adelaide and surrounds

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January 26th 2009
We crossed the border into South Australia which at first didn't really look any different from the road. The first town was called Coober Pedy which is an old (and still current) opal mining town. As you approach it you see all the devistation the dynamite blasts have caused to the landscape and it feels really strange after being in the midddle of the bush for so long! Lots of the town itself ... read more

Oceania » Australia » South Australia » Adelaide

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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