Kata Tjuta

Lord of the flies!

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March 16th 2007
We basically covered 4,000 km of the Outback from Adelaide on the South coast to Townsville on the North East coast in 5 days. As predicted it was extremely hot, uncomfortably hot and even though we had allowed 10 days for the journey we squashed this into half the time. The first main “town” was Coober Pedy - an Opal mining town, where the extremes in weather are so great, that many people ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Uluru

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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