Lording it All

Mokes, meals and Magnetic Island

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April 26th 2009
The city of Townsville sheilds the beauty that lies of its shore. The Island gained its name due to the strange effects on compasses in the age of Captain Cook. Magnetic Island, once a fortress to safeguard the East Coast against long range attacks from the Japanese during WWII, it is now the home to 2000 inhabitants and about as many back-packers. The place to be on the island is Base. This ho ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Magnetic Island

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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