Superbike Australia
26/02/2012 | Phillip Island - Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit
Overview
Overview: Australia has come a long way since the days when Captain Cook stumbled ashore to find an Aboriginal way of life that went back some 40,000 years. Indeed, Australia must really be divided into ’modern Australia’ and ’indigenous Australia’, since there is a wealth of disparate elements that constitute this compelling country.
The continent was first known to Europeans as Terra Australis. The first European settlements were initiated by the Dutch East India Company in 1606. By 1868, Britain had sent more than 160,000 convicts to Australia and several of modern Australia’s biggest cities around the coast grew from the penal settlements. Eventually, the British crown claimed the entire continent. The colonisers unfortunately treated the Kooris, the indigenous population, with appalling brutality, which only worsened following the gold rush and the first wave of voluntary migration that spilled into the interior, where many Kooris had fled to.
The inaugural National Sorry Day was held in 1998 and has become an annual fixture on the Australian calendar. The day is a symbolic event that heralds modern Australia’s willingness to face its inception. The didgeridoo and the boomerang have become modern Australian icons. Tourists flock to the breathtaking, epic monolith of Uluru (Ayers Rock) to watch the sun soak it in reds and oranges.
Many struggle to reconcile Aboriginal Dreamtime with the stereotype of carefree people in cork hats, swigging beer around a barbecue. But it isn’t difficult to ’take it easy’ amidst miles of sun, sea and sand. You could even do the Aussie thing and ride some waves, with surfing schools on offer all over the country (website: www.surfingaustralia.com).
Australia may be an island, but it is also the world’s largest one, and its size encompasses a range of stunning landscapes, from vast, barren deserts, where kangaroos and emus bound through the arid surroundings, to tropical rainforests and rugged mountains. Isolated from other continents, Australia has an abundance of unique plant and animal life.
Just as the surroundings surprise, so too may the people. Crocodile Dundee types have long been replaced by fashionistas browsing for bargains in Australia’s world-renowned cities. Australia embraces its Pacific Rim location, with multicultural influence throughout, from Sydney’s great harbour that welcomes worldwide visitors, to Melbourne’s European ambience and lively Chinatown. Australia is a real hotchpotch of elements, catering for every kind of holidaymaker.
Author: Robin McKelvie
Overview: Australia has come a long way since the days when Captain Cook stumbled ashore to find an Aboriginal way of life that went back some 40,000 years. Indeed, Australia must really be divided into ’modern Australia’ and ’indigenous Australia’, since there is a wealth of disparate elements that constitute this compelling country.
The continent was first known to Europeans as Terra Australis. The first European settlements were initiated by the Dutch East India Company in 1606. By 1868, Britain had sent more than 160,000 convicts to Australia and several of modern Australia’s biggest cities around the coast grew from the penal settlements. Eventually, the British crown claimed the entire continent. The colonisers unfortunately treated the Kooris, the indigenous population, with appalling brutality, which only worsened following the gold rush and the first wave of voluntary migration that spilled into the interior, where many Kooris had fled to.
The inaugural National Sorry Day was held in 1998 and has become an annual fixture on the Australian calendar. The day is a symbolic event that heralds modern Australia’s willingness to face its inception. The didgeridoo and the boomerang have become modern Australian icons. Tourists flock to the breathtaking, epic monolith of Uluru (Ayers Rock) to watch the sun soak it in reds and oranges.
Many struggle to reconcile Aboriginal Dreamtime with the stereotype of carefree people in cork hats, swigging beer around a barbecue. But it isn’t difficult to ’take it easy’ amidst miles of sun, sea and sand. You could even do the Aussie thing and ride some waves, with surfing schools on offer all over the country (website: www.surfingaustralia.com).
Australia may be an island, but it is also the world’s largest one, and its size encompasses a range of stunning landscapes, from vast, barren deserts, where kangaroos and emus bound through the arid surroundings, to tropical rainforests and rugged mountains. Isolated from other continents, Australia has an abundance of unique plant and animal life.
Just as the surroundings surprise, so too may the people. Crocodile Dundee types have long been replaced by fashionistas browsing for bargains in Australia’s world-renowned cities. Australia embraces its Pacific Rim location, with multicultural influence throughout, from Sydney’s great harbour that welcomes worldwide visitors, to Melbourne’s European ambience and lively Chinatown. Australia is a real hotchpotch of elements, catering for every kind of holidaymaker.
Author: Robin McKelvie
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