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Tasmania - Port Arthur

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November 10th 2012
With the promise of a quieter hotel room for tonight and Saturday, we set off for Port Arthur with Pat. The morning's coffee stop at Dunelley offered magnificent views, another warm welcome as well as pretty good coffee - see photograph As we pulled into the Port Arthur's Visitors Centre the clouds thickened and blackened overhead - the signs for a dry day were not good and so we wrappe ... 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