Another view, the Singing Ship

On the Capricorn Coast

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September 25th 2009
We have spent the last three nights at Yeppoon, the coastal town in from Rockhampton, on the Tropic of Capricorn. We picked up our mail - thank you Nicholas - and mostly lazed about, though we did have a swim in the ocean one day. This time we didn’t go over to Great Keppel Island - we had intended having lunch at the Mercure there to celebrate our wedding anniversary yesterday. We found the re ... 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