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Panorama of a Pacific National Freight Train in scenic outback South Australia near Yunta, a small township located south-east of the Flinders Ranges on the railway line and the Barrier Highway between Peterborough and Broken Hill. Yunta was once an important hub for the gold diggings at Teetulpa and Waukaringa in the 1880s but has since declined to a small service town for the surrounding farms. The Great Southern Railways Indian Pacific train from Adelaide to Sydney passes the town as do long freight trains on this important route.
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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.
