Shipwreck

Fraser Island and Onwards

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March 31st 2007
This is actually a blog from New Zealand, as we are a bit behind with writing everything up! Sorry for the delay, but the internet seems to be getting harder and harder to access (when they say it's like England 50 years ago, they aren't kidding!). Anyway, for our last week in Australia and we did a whistle-stop tour of the places we most wanted to see on the East Coast. We left Sydney and got a ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Fraser Island

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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