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East Coast Stop Four - Surfers Paradise

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July 1st 2013
On the 19th June we left Byron Bay and drove up the coast towards Surfer’s Paradise, where we had booked a one bedroom apartment for 13 nights at ‘The Shore Apartments’, a high rise building (as a lot of the buildings are in the Gold Coast), right opposite the ocean. However, as the drive was only just over an hour (crossing the barrier from New South Wales into Queensland!), we decided ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Surfers Paradise

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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