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Lunch...The climb up Mount Roland  
   

Lunch...The climb up Mount Roland

Tasmania 10 Day Safari - Misty peaks and wild fights

February 17th 2010
Ninth Day One gets used to coming across familiar place names here. British people sail to the colonies and name their new homes after the same ones they just left. In Tasmania it's Richmond, Launceston, St Helens and... Swansea - pronounced Swan-sea and not the British Swan-zee. It is a land of strange and enigmatic place names too - it's the opportunity to use your imagination: Snug, L ... read more
Oceania » Australia » Tasmania » Bay of Fires

Australian Flag 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
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