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Australia, Part 3: Queensland

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March 10th 2018
Next stop - Cairns, Queensland, and the Great Barrier Reef. Since we had bought a car and driven around Australia in 1994, for this trip we mostly concentrated on areas we hadn’t seen before, or wanted to go back to. My original idea was to drive from Melbourne to Brisbane, and then head north, along the coast. After speaking to some people, we scrapped that plan and flew to Cairns and drove sou ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland

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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