Uluru
by Klaus Mayer
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Mount Conner rises 300 metres above the vast plains lining Lasseter Highway in the south-west of Nort...
A view from a small hill that sits along side the Gary Junction Road. A road originally made in the 1...
A monument to one of Australia's great painters and possibly best known artist, Albert Namatjira. The...
Some travellers with a deep spirit of Adventure spend their holiday, not on the beach or in the mount...
Surface water is not very common in this part of Australia. This traveller makes use of water from a ...
Once upon a time there was a man who went by the name Len Beadell, he was employed as a surveyor and ...
Chambers Pillar (Aboriginal name 'Idracowra' or 'Etikaura') is a sandstone formation some 160 km sout...
Chambers Pillar (Aboriginal name 'Idracowra' or 'Etikaura') is a sandstone formation some 160 km sout...
Chambers Pillar (Aboriginal name 'Idracowra' or 'Etikaura') is a sandstone formation some 160 km sout...
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.
