Karumba

Karumba North Queensland

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May 5th 2013
Well we left Victoria Point on 8/3/2013 so nearly 2 months and we are still in QLD. Having left Atherton we headed up and over the tablelands, the car performed well up those hills, we ended up pulling in at Croydon around lunch time and settled in to the only C/P in the town electing to stay for 1 night.Like a lot of these outback towns it grew out of the mining boom in the late 1800's, and ... 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