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Up In Cairns

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June 21st 2009
Right now I’m up Cairns. I had to wake up at 5am on Thursday morning so I could check out of my hostel, grab a train and catch my 7am fight up here. The flight up here wasn’t too bad. It’s about a 3 hour flight, so I just took a nap most of the way, which worked out well since I took a discount airline that didn’t show a movie. Anyways, landing in Cairns was a completely different exper ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns » Cairns City

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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