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Panorama of the original site of the Cape Northumberland lighthouse, Port MacDonnell, South Australia. The original lighthouse built in 1858 only survived 23 years until it had to be demolished because the cliff it was standing on was undermined by erosion, a new lighthouse was built in 1882 400 metres to the east. Port MacDonnell on the Limestone Coast is the southernmost port in South Australia. The town is known for fishing, surfing, boating, snorkelling, sailing and cave diving in sinkholes.
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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.
