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Swimming on a summer day is the ideal way to cool off after a walk, climb or hike.
Over millions of years this massive rock has been eroded into place creating the natural arch which i...
Standing under the Granite arch at Girraween National Park you can see the detail of the awesome rock...
The Pyramids are two granite domes high in the Girraween National Park. Many natural granite rock for...
Shaped over millions of years Girraween National Park features granite sculptures, shapes, domes, per...
Perched so precariously, millions of years of erosion wind and elements have made certain the future ...
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Friendly people, lovely outlook.
The media launch for the "Experience the Highs" campaign featuring the Web site, Facebook Pages and t...
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.