Burke and Wills Camp 119

Hells Gate to Burke and Wills Camp 119

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June 29th 2016
Hells Gate to Burke and Wills Camp 119. The coldest start to the day for months, approximately 12 degrees celsius, jumpers pulled out from the bottom of the clothing cupboard. Slow to warm up and adjusting to the time change we commenced our days travel at 0930hrs, odometer 93729kms. We drove along the corrugated gravel road on the Savannah Way to Doomadgee here we fuelled up at 1.447 cents per ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Burketown

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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