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Royal Melbourne Zoo
Established in 1861, this is the oldest zoo in Australia and the third oldest in the world. Today its one of the city鈥檚 most popular attractions. Set in spacious, prettily landscaped gardens, the zoo鈥檚 enclosures aim to simulate the animals鈥?natural habitats. Walkways pass through
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The Kimberley
The rugged Kimberley is one of Australias last frontiers, a little-travelled and very remote area of great rivers, oases and magnificent scenery. Its the quintessential Australian landscape of red earth, rock, gumtrees, crocodiles, wallabies and blue skies. Attractions include the
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Hyde Park Barracks Museum
Convict architect Francis Greenway designed this squarish, decorously Georgian structure (1819) as convict quarters. Between 1819 and 1848, 50,000 men and boys did time here, most of whom had been sentenced by British courts to transportation to Australia for property crime. It lat
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Shoalwater Islands Marine Park
Just a few minutes paddle, swim or boat ride away from the shore is strictly protected Penguin Island , home to penguins, silver gulls, boardwalks, swimming beaches and picnic tables. Apart from birdwatching (pied cormorants, pelicans, crested and bridled terns, oystercatchers), da
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Tom Price Mine
An ugly scar to some, an awe-inspiring testament to the industrial revolution to others, theres no doubting the sheer impact of Tom Price. This is what it looks like when you find a mountain of iron, cut it up into small lumps and ship it away. The first mine to be established in t
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Roma Street Parkland
This beautifully maintained, 16-hectare, 16-precinct downtown park is one of the world鈥檚 largest subtropical urban gardens. Formerly a market and a railway yard, the park opened in 2001 and features native trees, a lake, lookouts, waterfalls, a playground, barbecues and many a fran
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Booderee National Park
Occupying Jervis Bay鈥檚 southeastern spit, this sublime national park offers good swimming, surfing and diving on both bay and ocean beaches. Much of it is heathland, with some forest, including small pockets of rainforest.Surfing is good at Caves Beach and Pipeline .Walking-trail m
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Ellensbrook Homestead
Around 8km northwest of Margaret River, Ellensbrook (1857) was the first home of settlers Alfred and Ellen Bussell. The Wardandi people welcomed them, gave them Noongar names, and led them to this sheltered site. The basic ramshackle house is constructed of paperbark, driftwood, ti
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WWII Flying Boat Wrecks
On a very low tide its possible to walk out across the mudflats from Town Beach to the wrecks of Catalina and Dornier flying boats attacked by Japanese Zeroes during WWII. The planes had been evacuating refugees from Java and many still had passengers aboard. Over 60 people and 15
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Bicentennial Park
Bicentennial Park (The Esplanade) runs the length of Darwins waterfront and Lameroo Beach 鈥?a sheltered cove popular in the 20s when it housed the saltwater baths, and traditionally a Larrakia camp area. Shaded by tropical trees, the park is an excellent place to stroll. At the Her
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Sydney Tower Eye
The 309m-tall Sydney Tower (built 1970鈥?981) offers unbeatable 360-degree views from the observation level 250m up 鈥?and even better ones for the daredevils braving the Skywalk on its roof. The visit starts with the 4D Experience 鈥?a short 3D film giving you a birds-eye view (a par
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Emily & Jessie Gaps Nature Park
Emily Gap , 16km out of Alice, has stylised rock paintings and a fairly deep waterhole in the narrow gorge. The gap is a sacred site with some well-preserved paintings on the eastern wall. Jessie Gap , 8km further on, is equally scenic and usually much quieter. Both sites have toil
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Flagstaff Gardens
Originally known as Burial Hill, these gardens were the site of Melbournes first cemetery, where eight of the city鈥檚 early settlers were buried. Today its pleasant open lawns are popular with workers taking a lunchtime break. The gardens contain trees that are well over 100 years o
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Quarantine Station
From 1835 to 1983 this eerie-but-elegant complex was used to isolate new arrivals suspected of carrying disease, in an attempt to limit the spread of cholera, smallpox and bubonic plague. These days the Q Station has been reborn as a tourist destination with a museum, accommodation
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Riverfront
The former docks area northeast of the CBD is one of the most attractive and lively areas in the city. The striking, domed Customs House from 1886鈥?9is so aesthetically pleasing it鈥檚 hard to imagine it was used as a functional building. As the name suggests, for almost a century th
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Round House
Built from 1830 to 1831, this 12-sided stone prison is WAs oldest surviving building. It was the site of the colonys first hangings, and was later used for holding Aboriginal people before they were taken to Rottnest Island. On the hilltop outside is the Signal Station, where at 1p
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National Sports Museum
Hidden away in the bowels of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, this sports museum features five permanent exhibitions focusing on Australia鈥檚 favourite sports and celebrates historic sporting moments. Kids will love the interactive sports section where they can test their footy, cricke
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Mount Sorrow
The Mount Sorrow ridge trail provides opportunities for fit and experienced bushwalkers to take in spectacular views from an elevation of 680m. The trail starts in a lowland rainforest valley, full of trees with large buttress roots and a canopy woven with large woody vines. As the
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Cooks Cottage
Cooks Cottage was shipped from Yorkshire in 253 packing cases and reconstructed in 1934 (the cottage actually belonged to the navigators parents). Nearby is writer Ola Cohns equally kooky carved Fairies Tree . Efforts to preserve the 300-year-old stump, embellished in 1932 with fai
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Arts Centre Melbourne
The Arts Centre is made up of two separate buildings: Hamer Hall (the concert hall) and the theatres building (under the spire). Both are linked by a series of landscaped walkways. The George Adams Gallery and St Kilda Road Foyer Gallery are free gallery spaces with changing exhibi
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