Queensland Border 1

As North as we are going to go!

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February 11th 2009
Cheryl took us for a walk up Bald Hill which is the highest granite rock in Australia -and we walked straight up it! She galloped ahead like a mountain goat and I grizzled and moaned all the way up - Barry having to pull me most of the way ‘cos I thought I was going to topple over backwards and kill myself. Glen Innes has its own Standing Stones and British Airways have even donated one of the ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » 1770

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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