Dicky Beach shipwreck in heatwave
by Rich Powell
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Dicky Beach named after the ship wreck SS Dicky.
One of only two beaches in the world named after a shipwreck.
The iron remains of the ship are visible in the foreground. Taken on a hot Sunday.
On the Sunshine Coast of Queensland on the Pacific Ocean.
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Gerrard lookout early morning.
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Standing at the top of Chicken Gate Rock on Mount Tibrogargan. This is where many will turn back and ...
The view from the top of Mount Ngun Ngun - one of the easiest mountains to climb in the Glasshouse Mo...
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.
