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Panoramic photo by
David Rowley
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Desert Queen Baths |
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Karlamilyi National Park (formerly Rudall River National Park) is one of Australia's biggest National Parks, it is also one of the most remote National Parks. Seen here is a small Oasis in the Desert that goes by the name of Desert Queen Baths.
A traveller travels in his 4 wheel drive along the remote Canning Stock Route. A fuel drop supplies f...
The Canning Stock Route was once used to drive cattle from the Kimberley region in Australia's North ...
The Oasis of Durba Springs is now a welcome break for 4 wheel drivers making use of the Canning Stock...
Durba Springs is an Oasis in the desert for travellers of the Canning Stock Route. Once used by cattl...
Thring rock is a very remote landmark in Western Australia. This and many other rocky outcrops around...
Camping with the "Canning Crew" at Well 6, Pierre Springs.
Getting to this island in Red Gorge is an interesting experience, for me (the photographer) it meant ...
Knox Gorge, standing on a large boulder looking down into Red Gorge. From here to get to Red Gorge yo...
Weano Gorge ends in style with the Weano Falls. A 40 metre waterfall down into Red Gorge.
There are no kangaroos in Austria.
We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in!
Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth.
The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party.
This rumor ignores 40,000 years of pre-European human history, especially the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, an interesting explanation of physical and spiritual reality.
The two biggest cities in Australia are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is more for business, Melbourne for arts. But that's painting in very broad strokes. Take a whirl around the panoramas to see for yourself!Text by Steve Smith.