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Sunset at Lake's Entrance

Canberra to Lake's Entrance

February 7th 2007
On the 3rd, the day after the thunderstorm, we finally got to explore Canberra and all it's sites. The interesting thing about Canberra is the fact that the city has been totally planned out since its inception. When the Commonwealth of Australia came about, Sydney and Melbourne fought over where the capital would be. Neither city wanted to see the other as the capital, so the compromise was cr ... read more
Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Philip Island

Australian Flag 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
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