Berlitz Australia Pocket Guide

Berlitz Australia Pocket Guide

Ken Bernstein

Language: English

Pages: 255

ISBN: 2831565219

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


The Australia Pocket Guide is packed with stunning photographs, easy-to-use maps, and all the information you really need to get the most from your visit! Explore Sydney, Canberra, Darwin Tasmania, Adelaide's Henley Beach, Perth's King Park or the gold rush towns of Ballarat and Kalgoorlie. There are sections on sports, entertainment, shopping and festivities all here in this handy, user-friendly Australia Pocket Guide. (4 X 5 3/4, 256 pages, color photos, maps)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Australia has some unique specialities in the reptile department, too, including 2-metre (6ft) goannas, exotic creatures like the frill-necked lizard and the bearded dragon, and the world’s largest crocodile, the salt-water croc, or ‘saltie’. For good measure, the island contains more species of venomous snake than anywhere else on earth. A Continent Cut Off Australia has been isolated from other continents since it split from the remnants of the southern super-continent, Gondwana, about 40

on the Adelaide River and watch as crocodiles leap vertically from the water next to your cruise boat, attracted by chicken meat dangled over the side by crew members. Kakadu wetlands Glyn Genin/Apa Publications Kakadu National Park Visitors – particularly birdwatchers and photographers – are unfailingly enthralled by Kakadu National Park � [map] (www.kakadu.com.au; charge for non-NT residents over 16). The park covers 19,800 sq km (7,600 sq miles), and the accommodation and commercial

the equipment for the telegraph relay station built at Alice Springs and the supplies to keep the technicians alive. When termites devoured the first telegraph poles, replacements – heavy iron poles brought in from Britain – also had to be transported by camel train. Telegraphic messages aside, Alice Springs remained isolated until World War II – and until the 1960s it was little more than a crossroads market town. In February 2004, the Alice to Darwin 1,420-km (880-mile) railway extension was

so bring proof of your membership. New South Wales: NRMA, 388 George Street, Sydney, NSW 2000; tel: 02-8741 6000; www.mynrma.com.au Victoria: RACV, 550 Princes Highway, Noble Park, Victoria 3174; tel: 03-9790 2211; www.racv.com.au Queensland: RACQ, 300 St Paul’s Terrace, Fortitude Valley, QLD 4006; tel: 07-3361 2444; www.racq.com.au South Australia: RAA, 55 Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide, SA 5000; tel: 08-8202 4600; www.raa.com.au Tasmania: RACT, Corner of Patrick and Murray Streets, Hobart,

gold fields was rugged, conditions aggravated by climate, flies and tax collectors. Whether big winners or small losers, all the diggers had to pay the same licence fee. Enforcement and fines were needlessly strict. Justice, the miners felt, was tilted against them. So they burned their licences and demonstrated for voting rights and other reforms. In the subsequent siege of the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat in 1854, troops were ordered to attack the demonstrators. There was heavy loss of life, and

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