Victoria Hotel, Goondiwindi

Into Queensland

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June 25th 2015
We continued our drive north, more very flat land with the jagged mountains of Kaputer National park in the distant east. There were huge silos everywhere and paddocks had plantings of possibly grain and cotton as far as the eye could see. We knew we were in cotton country by the fluffy bits of cotton edging the highway. Just before Narrabri our road joined with the Newell Highway which meant a ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland

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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