M and Andy Botanical Gdns & Sydney Skyline.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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February 20th 2008
We had been looking forward to this day for ages. The guidebook says 'the dream way to arrive in Sydney is, of course, by ship cruising in below the great coat-hanger of the Harbour Bridge to tie up at the Overseas Passenger Terminal'; and we did just that! We arrived between The Heads just after lunch. The Heads are a series of headlands that form the 2 km (1.2 mile) wide entrance to Sydney Harbo ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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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