Amy wandering through Silverton

The Indian Pacific, Broken Hill and Silverton

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November 20th 2009
We're back on the road! After checking out of the Sydney Central YHA on the 18th November we went to Central Station (having remembered quite how much our bags weighed on the short walk there!) and found the platform for the Indian Pacific train. It's name comes from the fact that it runs between the Indian and Pacific oceans on its twice weekly 4,352 kilometres trip between Sydney and Perth, v ... read more

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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