The Sydney Opera House

Sydney, New South Wales

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November 3rd 2006
July 4 - 8, 2006 If you have not been to Sydney you still probably have very vivid images of it. Every travel agent in America has a picture somewhere in their office of the famous Sydney Opera House. And what would a New Year’s Eve television broadcast be without showing the fireworks over the iron monolith that is the Sydney Harbor Bridge as the new year begins working its way west across t ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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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