On The Bridge, Brisbane
par Ivan Aliverti
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Brisbane is the capital of the Australian state of Queensland and is the largest city in that state. The statistical division of Brisbane has a population estimated at 2 million by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and with its LGA registering a bit over a million, it is the third most populous city in Australia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane
In the University of Queensland campus there is a row of old jacaranda trees. In November their purpl...
Every year, locals put on spectacular Christmas lights displays all around Brisbane. Sometimes a whol...
Scattered sandstone boulders on top of hillside in Australian bush.
A hilltop boulder formation in eucalyptus forest. A storm cloud approaches.
Standing at the top of Chicken Gate Rock on Mount Tibrogargan. This is where many will turn back and ...
The glass house, so named by Captain James Cook on his voyage up the east coast of Australia. The sha...
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.
