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This view across Sydney harbour to Manly and the harbour entrance is one of the many gems that you co...
Middle Head is located on the northern side of Sydney Harbour and overlooks the harbour entrance. Thi...
This is the view across the Sydney Harbour entrance from South Head. It is the perfect place to surve...
Fancy a visit to a beach that has everything. Well if an excellent view of Sydney cbd across the harb...
If you are setting out on an exploration of Sydney's foreshore, The Gap is a great jumping off point....
Watsons Bay is at the eastern end of Sydney Harbour, just below the harbour entrance. It is a just a ...
Mosman is a great location on the lower North Shore of Sydney Harbour. It is a good place to live and...
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.