The reef from the air

Travel to the middle of Australia

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July 30th 2009
So we packed up an left our villa in Cairns, and went to the airport, arriving a bit later than intended but still in enough time to get on the plane. It was a 3 hour flight from Cairns to Alice Springs. We got some good views of the reef as we took off and circled over the sea. Then inland over a very empty country with dry river beds and other things visible. Then we came into land at what ... 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