The no-frills Rolleston caravan park

We reach the Central Highlands

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September 25th 2015
After many days of relatively flat driving we now drove through undulating hills that eventually became significant ranges; we had entered the Central Highlands. Much of this drive was through native pine forest (the biggest native pines we have ever seen) or through wooded cattle country. Rugged escarpments towered in the distance and the Dawson river cut deep gorges below the bridges we ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Emerald

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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