Queen Victoria Shopping Centre

Day 5 - Sydney (shopping)

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September 23rd 2009
Only half a day in Sydney today… flying to NZ at half 6. Awoke to an orange mist - quite a surreal sight from our hotel window at 6.40am local time. Our first inclination was that as it was sunrise, there was an orange haze. However, when we turned on channel 7 news, it appeared that this was in fact a dust storm that had moved in from central/southern Australia. This we thought may have been re ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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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