View Along Outback Road

Traveling to Townsville for Easter

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May 14th 2009
We allowed ourselves two days to get to Townsville and meet Mich and Phil for Easter, and in retrospect probably not long enough to do the 1,500km journey. Though cracking out the k's over those two days felt like a proper road trip across the outback. The journey from Three Ways (where we left the Stuart Highway) to Townsville on the Queensland coast was flat and boring. Mount Isa was the main ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland

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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