Adelaide Fountain

Going It Alone

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October 13th 1989
A while back, at the hostel, I met someone who was travelling around Australia following a similar route to me on a bus pass. Rather than being time limited, like the one I had to get down from Darwin, this allowed you to take as long as you liked, with as many stops as you liked on a specified route. It was also dirt-cheap (considering the distances involved) and make things even better, there wa ... 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