Pencil Pine Falls
par Klaus Mayer
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Panorama of Pencil Pine Falls, a 10m waterfall on Pencil Pine Creek only a short distance upstream from Knyvet Falls near the Cradle Valley Visitor Centre in the Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair National Park of Tasmania.
Panorama of Knyvet Falls, a small waterfall on Pencil Pine Creek near the Cradle Mountain visitor cen...
Panorama of Dove Lake at the base of the peaks of Cradle Mountain covered in mist.
Panorama of Dove Lake in Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair National Park in early spring. Dove Lake is ...
The once famed bare hills of Queenstown are slowly shrinking year on year, with just a relatively sma...
Along the esplanade at Strahan, on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia.
Tasmania's best known falls, Russell Falls is just a short 10 minutes easy walk from the Mt Field Nat...
A river flows through a wet rainforest valley in the St Columba National Park in Tasmania, Australia.
Ancient ferns fill a wet rainforest valley in the St Columba National Park in Tasmania, Australia.
Panorama of Windermere Bay on Derwent River in Claremont. The first Cadbury chocolate factory in Aust...
Inside St John's church in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. This is the oldest church building in Austr...
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.
