Melbourne Skyline

Wanderings in Australia - 4 - Melbourne

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February 15th 2015
Melbourne, the capital of the state of Victoria, was our next destination. A pleasant walkable city with many trams rattling down the centre of the larger streets. Developed originally as a planned city, resulted in a grid layout and wide streets with plane and eucalyptus trees. Many of the streets are lined by older buildings from the 19th century with wrought iron balustrades and a modern hig ... 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