Historic Swing Bridge
di Klaus Mayer
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Panorama of the historic Sale Swing Bridge built 1880-1883 at the junction of Thomson and Latrobe rivers. The bridge is the oldest surviving swing bridge in Australia which was closed to traffic in 2002 but has been restored to full working order in 2006.
Bairnsdale with a population of about 11,000 is located 285 kilometres east of Melbourne on the banks...
The Snappy Shutters photo group prepare their cameras on the veranda of Kawar, Lakes Entrance, before...
Panorama of the wide green median strip dividing the lanes of Main Street in Bairnsdale. The median s...
Flamingo Beach is part of the Ninety Mile Beach, 250 kilometres south-east of Melbourne in the Gippsl...
Panorama of Raymond Street with clock tower in the centre of Sale. Sale is a town with a population o...
Panorama of Uniting Church and streetscape on corner Raymond Street and Macalister Street of Sale in ...
Panorama of McKillops Bridge (1935) crossing the Snowy River in the Snowy River National Park. The lo...
Panorama of the port of Sale. Sale with a population of 13,000 is located in the Gippsland region, ab...
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.
