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Ghost Stories

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January 29th 2011
This afternoon, we were picked up for the long way round to Port Arthur - the site of an infamous prison, feared by convicts Australia wide. Our first stop en route was the historic town of Richmond. Normally I use the word 'historic' lightly in Australia but Tassie was the second place the Europeans settled after Sydney and genuinely does have some pretty cool history. We visited an old h ... 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