Middle engines of train

Update while we have coverage.

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August 15th 2009
We leave Port Headland tomorrow, and probably won't have coverage again for a while. We are heading inland, south to Marble Bar - the hottest place in Australia for a night. From there we will check out the dirt road to Newman, some 299k, but will probably retrace our tracks to highway one, go west 60k, then turn off south again 450k to Newman (where the world's largest open cut mine is), and then ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Port Hedland

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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