River in St Columba National Park
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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.
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Inside St John's church in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia. This is the oldest church building in Austr...
Oldest Roman Catholic church in Australia, built in 1836.
Built by convicts in 1823, the Richmond Bridge is the oldest bridge remaining in Australia today.
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On Australia’s National Heritage list since 2005, the Richmond Bridge was constructed from local sand...
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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.
