Welcome (back) to Australia 20141113_172816

Welcome (back) to Australia

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November 15th 2014
After airport dinner and a sleepless night flight from Hong Kong, plus additional security searches at the plane doors, I landed in Brisbane early yesterday morning to an arrivals hall teeming with tense looking security guards. Got the chance to use e-passport for the first time but slightly disappointed at the lack of stamps in my passport. Lots of bustle, mutters about which direction to go, co ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Cairns

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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