Margens Restaurant, Broke

Cessnock, Wollombi and Broke

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March 5th 2016
Geo: -32.9381, 151.141Robyn went to the Pokolbin craft market in the morning then we went on a drive through the local towns.Saw an interesting Aboriginal art exhibition in Wollombi where the curator told me of an oral history story regarding locals canoeing out to nearby islands. Geologists say the islands are now a local chain of hills that emerged from the sea 18,000 years ago. A remarkab ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Wollombi

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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