Back o'Bourke centre

Back o' Bourke

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June 11th 2010
It's about 400 or so kilometres from Narrabri to Bourke - a long drive to do in a day, in a motor home. The countryside is flat, and between Narrabri and Wee Waa there are cotton farms as far as the eye can see. The cotton has recently been harvested so bare paddocks were edged in large bales of cotton, and the road for kilometres was edged with puffs of cotton. It's something of a controversial c ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Bourke

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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