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Panorama of Sharam's Cottages in Petticoat Lane, Penola, South Australia. The cottage is an excellent example of early settler buildings in rural Australia. Christopher Sharam was a well known bootmaker who married Ellen Patching in 1848. Sharam built the first cottage in 1850 and a second cottage in the 1860s for his growing family. The couple had 15 children, they lost 2 daughters and 1 son at early age due to high infant mortality in the early settler days and 1 son at the age of 17 after falling from a penny farthing bicycle. Christopher died in 1890 aged 77, Ellen lived in the cottage until she died in 1910 also aged 77.
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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.
