The Melbourne Gaol

Melbourne

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November 5th 2012
The trip to Melbourne began with a taxi ride to the Ballarat train station. I was rather amazed at how substantial the train station is for the size of the town. Apparently, the state of Victoria has a pretty thorough network of trains. The train trip in was fun, taking about an hour – and dropped us of in another world. Ballarat, Bendigo, and Daylesford were very white, very European towns. Me ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne

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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