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Crab Nebula – As Seen by Hubble Space Telescope – Free Desktop Wallpaper

Download a high resolution desktop wallpaper photo of “The Crab Nebula” as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant, all that remains from the violent death of a star that may have been as much as 10 times more massive than our Sun.

In July/August of 1054, Chinese [...]

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Anna Creek Painted Desert Scenic Flight Near Lake Eyre (Review)

I took a scenic flight over the Anna Creek Painted Desert (aka Painted Hills) during my Adelaide to Darwin Trans-Australia Road Trip through the arid desert which dominates central Australia near Lake Eyre
These spectacular painted hills are located within the confines of the Woomera rocket range within an hours flight from William Creek (population 10) [...]

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Armenian WW1 Genocide by Ottoman Turks: Ghost from the Past

While Australian diggers were fighting in Gallipoli in 1915, and of course we honour them every year on Anzac Day (25 April) there was another war being waged in the Turkish heartland where hundreds of 1000’s of ethnic Armenians were driven out of their homes.
Many were slaughtered, others starved, historians say as many as 1,000,000 [...]

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Glacier Explorers Tasman Glacier by Boat – Best New Zealand Day Trip

The “Glacier Explorers” Tasman Glacier boat trip is the best value outdoor activity in New Zealand at $120/person or $95 for YHA members
Viewing the Tasman Glacier up close was one of the most anticipated parts of my 2nd journey to New Zealand’s South Island and it did not disappoint. Glacier Explorers is the only tour [...]

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Panoramic Photos – Mount Cook, Tasman+Hooker Glaciers and Lake Tekapo

I just returned from a 3 week trip to New Zealand’s South Island and wrote plenty of notes in my diary which I’ll use to create articles on the Road Less Travelled … in the meanwhile here are some panoramic photos I took of Mount Cook, the Tasman and Hooker Glaciers as well as Lake [...]

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Colder Than You Expect: Sleeping in a Swag in the Australian Outback Desert

One of my friends who has recently moved to Australia from Britain was wondering why I had a -10C° rated sleeping bag in Australia, she said there’s “something wrong with that picture…”
She had made a common mistake in not realising that in the desert, night time temperatures can be cold at any time of [...]

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San Pedro De Atacama (Chile) – Like Nowhere Else on Earth

GUEST ARTICLE: The flight from Santiago, Chile up to Calama only took two hours. From above you could see the drastic change in the terrain and soon the most arid desert in the world was below us. Stepping out onto the scorching black tarmac, our eyes burned not only from the brilliant sun [...]

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Working As A Remote Area Pharmacist in Outback Australia

GUEST ARTICLE: G’day. I’m Robbo. I do have a real name, but my first name can’t be used due to cultural reasons
I discovered that on my first day out here four years ago and have used my nickname ever since from here to meetings with government departments! I work as a Remote Area Pharmacist [...]

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Pucón at the base of Chiles Active Volcano Villarrica

GUEST ARTICLE: Ola! After leaving Santiago in our little tinbox we headed south (about 9 hrs) towards Pucón. It appears that the real Chile is outside of Santiago. Meaning very poor and nothing like what we western folks are used to, no big Ramada’s on every corner that’s for sure!

Chile – Volcan Villarrica closeup showing [...]

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Fly Virgin Blue & Get 5% of Flight Cost Rebated

Whenever I book flights within Australia & NZ I always do it on Virgin Blue because I know how to get 5% of my flight cost* rebated as credit on my Virgin Mobile account and besides that Qantas is expensive with poor service and Jetstar is cheap and nasty with less legroom.
Everyone knows that Virgin [...]

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Sunrise on Top of Mount Kosciusko New Years Day – Free Desktop Wallpaper

Download a free 1024×768 resolution desktop wallpaper photo of Sunrise on top of Mount Kosciusko at 4:59AM January 1st 2007 (New Years Day).
In the middle of Summer at the end of 2006, I went on a 4 day bush walking and camping trip organised by fellow members of the UTS Outdoor Adventure Club (OAC) to [...]

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West Coast Australia: Stromatolites, Monkey Mia and Ningaloo Reef

GUEST ARTICLE: In which our intrepid outback explorer Rob gets a closeup view of ancient living fossil stromatolites, snorkels at a Coral reef and has close encounters with dolphins, dugongs, a whale shark and giant manta ray.

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Why Angkor Kingdom Collapsed and Modern Cambodian Corruption

At the height of its power, 300 years before its collapse in the 15th century, the kingdom of Angkor controlled a large part of what is now Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, Laos and Vietnam and its capital was the largest pre-industrial city known to man.

Angkor Wat Collage photo credit: meilyn

Australian ABC TV foreign correspondent Eric Campbell [...]

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High Speed Rail Trains Around the World: Except Australia

By 2013 Australia will be in the embarrassing position of being left behind by Africa and South America as the only inhabited continent on this planet without any true high speed 200 km/hr+ rail services.

Europe
Europe has the best network of high speed trains in the world. On the London-Paris route, Eurostar boasted 70 per cent [...]

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The Tragic Tale of Easter Island (Rapa Nui)

Easter Island would be on most people’s lists of remote places to travel to, with the obvious attraction of seeing the famous Moai (statues)
I decided to write an article about Easter Island after reading Gary Arndt’s travel blog where he reflects on how remote Easter Island is:
Easter Island Moai (by Gary Arndt on Flickr)
One thing [...]

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