Commonwealth Meteorological Station
by Klaus Mayer
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The Commonwealth Meteorological Station in Cobar is located about 1 kilometere north-west of the town centre. The station releases daily a weather balloon which can be observed by visitors. Sadly in 2009 the station ceased to offer tours for visitors interested in the operations of a weather station.
Cobar Railway Station was constructed in 1892 during the peak of the railway construction in Australi...
Cobar is a thriving copper, lead, silver, zinc, and gold mining town that also supports the surroundi...
Cobar is an outback mining town at the crossroads of the Kidman Way and the Barrier Highway in New So...
The Cornish Rest Stop is located at the closed Great Cobar mine at the cross roads of Barrier Highway...
The New Tank Reservoir supports the water supply of Cobar and offers a recreational area in the arid ...
A few minutes east of Cobar is the 300 metres high Fort Bourke Lookout which provides panoramic views...
Mount Grenfell Historic Site is located in west of NSW, approx. 50 kilometres west of Cobar, 760 kilo...
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Tailings adjacent to the Barrier Highway remind of the copper mining history of Mount Hope in outback...
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.
