A view from near Hobart

My Tassie Road Trip

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January 28th 2007
Hello Everyone. Firstly I must say... Wow! I have had such a good time over the last week... seen some amazing things and enjoyed pretty much all of it! What I did was... hire a car from the capital city, Hobart... and then made my way clockwise around Tassie. It took me a week. And the roads are not simple... alot of the time you are on gravel roads or winding round mountains! (One thing it has ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Tasmania

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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