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This home for sale in Greenwith SA
Mawson Lakes in South Australia is a newer suburb. The first blocks of land being sold in 1998. Maw...
This lovely little wooden bridge crosses over the creek in Mawson Lakes South Australia. It forms par...
This friendly park in Northgate is surrounded with high quality homes and not far from the Adelaide CBD
The St Kilda Adventure playground has swings and slides for kids of all ages. It is free to visit an...
The small town of Gumeracha, a 40 minute drive north of Adelaide in the scenic Adelaide Hills, is wel...
The Bicentennial Conservatory is the largest single span conservatory in the southern hemisphere & on...
Panorama of illuminated St Peters Cathedral on New Years Eve. Saint Peters Cathedral constructed betw...
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.