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Here were are at one of the best (in my opinion) lookouts in Charles Knife Canyon in Cape Range Natio...
Here we are in one of many beautiful gorges in Cape Range National Park, Western Australia. This is A...
The causeway that crosses the Lyons River on this highway makes the crossing a very simple one, provi...
Shows a high quality Pano of the Phyton Pool. It's one of the very beautiful places in Millstream Chi...
I found the country at the upper side of the Ashburton River to be some of the driest I had ever seen...
Mount nameless is accessible all the way to the summit by 4 wheel drive vehicle. From the summit you ...
Often claimed to be the world’s largest monolith, Mount Augustus stands 1106 metres above sea level a...
This photo was taken from the deepest that most people will make it down Hancock Gorge. The sign seen...
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.
