Female Kangaroo

Koalas and Kangaroos in the wild

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January 29th 2017
Today we went way out into the bush, to the You Yangs Regional parks, the flatlands of Australia which are filled with the Eucalyptus trees, known in Australia as Gum Trees, and the Acacia trees. It is an area that receives very little rain and is therefore very dry and barren. We went to a nature preserve which contains the famous Australia animals - Koalas and Kangaroos. In this case, we were tr ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne

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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