Sydney received 7.8 million domestic visitors and 2.5 million international visitors in 2004. The most well known attractions include the Sydney Opera House, and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Other attractions include Royal Botanical Gardens, Luna Park, the beaches and Sydney Tower. Port Jackson, containing Sydney Harbour is the natural harbour of Sydney. It is known for [...]
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Sydney’s central business district (CBD) extends southwards for about 3 kilometres (1.25 mi) from Sydney Cove to the area around Central station. The Sydney CBD is bounded on the east side by a chain of parkland, and the west by Darling Harbour, a tourist and nightlife precinct. Although the CBD dominated the city’s business and cultural [...]
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Sydney is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.28 million (2006 estimate). It is the state capital of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British colony in Australia. It was established in 1788 at Sydney Cove by Arthur Phillip, leader of the First Fleet [...]
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Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Australia, in the state of Queensland. Adjacent to the central section of the Great Barrier Reef it is in the dry tropics region of Queensland. Townsville is Australia’s largest urban centre north of the Sunshine Coast with the 2006 census recording the Townsville Statistical District (the [...]
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Surfers Paradise is a town on Australia’s Gold Coast in Queensland. Colloquially known as ‘Surfers’, the suburb is famous for its many high-rise apartment buildings and wide surf beach. The central feature of the Surfers Paradise central business district is Cavill Mall, which runs through the centre of the main shopping precinct. Cavill Avenue, named [...]
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Scarborough is a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Its local government area is the City of Stirling. It is approximately 14 km by road northwest of central Perth. It has a population of about 12,000 people (2001 census), of whom about 25% were born overseas. Of those, most were born in the United Kingdom; only [...]
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Port Macquarie is a large town on the mid-North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, located about 390 km north of Sydney, and 570km south of Brisbane. The town is located on the coast, at the mouth of the Hastings River. The nearest railway town is Wauchope about 19 kilometres to the west. Port Macquarie [...]
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Port Douglas is a town on the coast of Queensland North of Cairns, near Daintree National Park. Port Douglas is a town in Far North Queensland, Australia, approximately 70 km (43 mi) north of Cairns. Its permanent population was 948 residents in 2006. The town’s population can often quadruple, however, with the influx of tourists during [...]
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Perth is one of the most isolated state capitals in the world. Located in the south west area region of the vast state of Western Australia, with 1.5 million residents, it contains around 70% of that state’s population. Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. With a population [...]
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Newcastle City Council is a Local Government Area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. Newcastle is at the mouth of the Hunter River, approximately 150 km north of Sydney in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Australia. The second largest city in the state of NSW and sixth largest of [...]
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