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Panoramic photo by
David Rowley
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Copi Hollow is a man made lake for speed boats, sailing, swimming and waterskiing 13 kilometres north...
Despite being located in the arid outback of New South Wales, Menindee is surrounded by large lakes f...
The Darling River on the eastern side of Kinchega National Park is one of the main attractions of thi...
Many years of drought and extensive extraction of water for irrigation caused the Darling River to dr...
The Kinchega Shearing Shed is one of the buildings remaining of the Kinchega-Kars pastoral lease whic...
Lake Balaka is a small lake of the Menindee lake system fed by the Darling River in south-western New...
The Menindee Broken Hill road passes through 100 kilometres of arid landscape where scattered shrubs ...
The 681 kilometre long Silver City Highway or State Highway 22 is the westernmost north-south highway...
The RFDS base in Broken Hill is a must-see stop for travellers and locals to experience the extensive...
The Royal Flying Doctor Service is providing health services over an area of 7,150,000 square kilomet...
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.