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The Z Bend is a popular tourist lookout on the Murchison River Gorge in Western Australia. It is loca...
Nature's Window, one of the many amazing things to visit in Kalbarri National Park in Western Australia
This small Church is the only one in Principality of Hutt River, a micro nation with a population of ...
The Principality of Hutt River was created in 1970, as a province by the name of Hutt River Province,...
Stromatolites are layered accretionary structures formed in shallow water by the trapping, binding an...
The gothic style church was built in 1867 and openend in 1870 to the Wesleyan community.Some informat...
According to the plate in front of Gray's Store was built in 1861 by the merchant Henry Gray. It was ...
A traveller, at the start of his trip, made a decision to travel in a Westerly direction, he made it ...
Steep Point is the most Westerly Point of the Australian mainland. Here the photographer is standing ...
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.
