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Kakadu

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July 21st 2012
July 21st 2012 We started the day in the cool pre-dawn on a boat cruise along Yellow Water and onto the South Alligator River (named before the explorers identified the species as crocodiles). The river is amazing, fringed with grasses with roots 3m long so they can float with the wet season, and with huge pink flowering water lillies, and pandanus. We saw lots of birds, including the jabiru ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Kakadu National Park

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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