Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney
par Daniel Payne
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Sydney Harbour, is the Largest natural harbour in the world. It is known for its beauty, and in particular, as the location of the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge. The location of the first European settlement in Australia, the harbour has continued to play a key role in the history and development of Sydney.
Sydney Harbour at sunrise. The Harbour Bridge carries rail, vehicles and pedestrian traffic. It was o...
Panorama taken from the overseas passenger terminal in Circular Quay, Sydney. The ship currently dock...
Sydney Opera House is situated on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, close to the Sydney Harbour Brid...
Sydney Opera House is situated on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, close to the Sydney Harbour Brid...
As one of the busiest performing arts centres in the world, providing over 1,500 performances each ye...
The Sydney opera house was completed in 1973, and in 2007 was made a UNESCO world heritage site. It i...
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.
