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Alice Springs

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April 20th 2009
Friday 17th April - Said farewell to Cairns, really liked this town and was sorry to leave. Taxi to airport and a 2hr flight to Alice Springs - “The Alice” as its locally known. As the skies were clear we had 2 hrs of flying over the desert - just mile after mile of red sandstone below us with the occasional dead straight dirt road and milky-blue salt lakes. Caught the shuttle bus to our h ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Alice Springs

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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