Siding Spring Observatory Lookout
par David Rowley
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The view from the summit of Siding Spring mountain, also known as Mount Woorat stands at 1165 metres about sea level. From here you can see many of the peaks of the Warrrumbungle National Park. Mount Siding Spring is also the home of many telescopes including the Anglo-Australian Telescope
Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, part of the Research School...
Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, part of the Research School...
The Siding Spring Observatory is the major optical and infrared observatory in Australia. This dome h...
The Siding Spring Observatory is the major optical and infrared observatory in Australia. It is locat...
Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, part of the Research School...
The Siding Spring Observatory is the major optical and infrared observatory in Australia. This dome h...
The Warrumbungle National Park contains many spires, domes and gorges. It is located in central NSW, ...
A few kilometres west of Coonabarabran is Timor Rock. The path to the summit is quite difficult to fo...
The Warrumbungle Observatory is a private observatory near the Siding Spring Observatory in central N...
Underneath Pilliga reseve in Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia. This is the view from a clear...
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.
