Statues at Malanda

Back in Cairns .... hooray!

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August 17th 2010
We left Cooktown after our two nights there and drove the long rather boring road back over the mountains. Rather than turning to the coast, this time we went straight ahead as we were going to have a couple of nights in the Atherton Tablelands. First stop was at Mareeba. Tea and coffee are grown in Far North Queensland, as well as sugar, dairy cattle and the other thing they have there is l ... 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