Alice Springs

Onwards and upwards to Alice Springs

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February 22nd 2010
We may have crossed the Nullabor and made it to Ceduna, it looked like such a great distance on the map but we still had 470 kilometres to drive before we would reach Port Augusta. The landscape changed after Ceduna and we were in a slightly more populated region. The landscape reminded me of the prairies of northern America, all arable land, green and golden, and crops ready for harvest as far as ... 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