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Orroral River and Orroral Valley, Namadgi National Park.
This is the spot where Sawpit Creek crosses the Orroral Valley walking track, soon after leaving Smok...
Trojan Wall, Namadgi National Park. This place offers what must be one of the best views of Orroral V...
Namadgi National Park – Orroral Valley as seen from Trojan Wall.I visited Trojan Wall last year – it ...
Namadgi National Park - Orroral Tracking Station car park.Spring is here, at last! Young leaves are s...
Smokers Trail in Namadgi National Park, heading towards the Smokers Trail car park through the eucaly...
Square Rock, which is found at the end of the Square Rock walking track in Namadgi National Park, is ...
Namadgi National Park, ACT. Geodetic Observatory building. A reasonably nice view of Orroral Valley d...
Namadgi National Park - Orroral Homestead, rear. This reconstructed homestead is a key stop along the...
Namadgi National Park - Orroral Homestead, front. This reconstructed homestead is a key stop along th...
Booroomba Rocks, Namadgi National Park.This area can be reached after a short climb (1.5km approx) f...
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.