Desert surrounding the Breakaways

Alice Springs to Adelaide - Coober Pedy, Flinders Ranges

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March 19th 2009
A 4am rise for the group on the third day. We had a full day on the bus ahead of us and hundreds of miles to clock up between Yulara in the Northern Territory and Coober Pedy in South Australia. I gazed out the window all day watching the changing scenery. The green landscape became sparser as we drove south, the trees thinned out, the bushes became smaller, the grass was bleached and thin ... read more

Oceania » Australia » South Australia

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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