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Australia was originally settled
by aboriginis then settled by a bunch of criminals. It was a penal colony, a dumping ground for
Britain’s convicts.
It’s a long plane ride
regardless of where you’re coming from.
A direct flight from Los Angeles is about eleven to twelve hours.
Most of the inland is a vast
desert. Almost all the people live on
the coast. Some parts of the northern
coast are jungle-like. The big draw, in
my opinion, are the beach areas south of Sydney.
Australia is a huge
country. If you show up without a plan
of which part to visit, you'll waste time deciding what to do and possibly
waste money by not booking in advance.
Australia is in the southern
hemisphere so the seasons are opposite to the seasons in the northern
hemisphere. They have winter when North
America and Europe have summer and summer when North America and Europe have
winter so Christmastime is summer for them.
Most of Australia has a
temperate climate. Snow is rare, even in
the winter. The northern part of
Australia is quite hot, almost tropical.
The seasons there are rainy, the wet time lasting from November to April
and the dry time from May to October.
The Australians take their
vacations during their summer vacation which is between late November to
February. This is their busy travel
time, the worst time for a foreign tourist.
It's much cheaper and less crowded to travel any other time but these
months.
Australia is expensive. The air ticket is expensive right off the bat
because it's so far away.
Get some Australian cash before
you go.
The flight to Australia could be
as long as 24 hours. If you are
traveling cheaply, use the hostels that are located everywhere.
Australia's electricity is on a
220-240V system which is different from North America's 110V system. If you bring electrical products, buy an
adapter which converts the plug shape to fit Australian sockets and a converter
to regulate the voltage.
The outback can be dangerous
both for the bad roads and the isolation.
If you break down, the heat can get to you.
For emergency fire, police, or
medical help, dial 000 on any phone.
Most people in Australia live on
the coast. Much of the country is a
semi-desert area called the outback full of farms, a few national parks and
empty spaces.
Ayer's Rock could be the most
famous rock in the world, a big rock in the middle of nowhere that people walk
up even though the natives don't want them to.
Try onetravel.com for cheap air
travel.
Try airbnb.com, craigslist.org
and tripadvisor.com for places to stay.
Australians drive on the left
side of the road. If you plan to rent a car, bring your driver's license from
your home country and buy an international driver's license through the mail
from either a car association, a travel club or a student travel
association. You don't take a test to
get it. You just pay some money, include
a picture and they send you one.
The Great Barrier Reef in the
northeast is a 2000 kilometer long reef in the ocean full of coral and marine
life. The main towns are Cairns,
Townsville and Mackay. There are several
islands along the reef.
The great barrier reef is the
world's largest coral reef located off the coast of Queensland in north-east
Australia. Captain Cook crashed on it
over 200 years ago. It's now a big
tourist area. A lot of Japanese people
live there and a lot of Japanese tourists go there.
gbrmpa.gov.au
The Northern Territory is a big,
sparsely populated area that covers much of the outback. Darwin is the capital.
Alice Springs is a town with
some notoriety as a place in the middle of nowhere.
Ayers Rock is a big rock in the
middle of a plain, Uluru, Australia, ayersrockresort.com.au.
voyages.com.au
nttc.com.au
nt.gov.au
ntholidays.com
Try #919.46 at the library.
adventour.com
800-788-6685
Ats Tours
888-222-7869
cartan.com
800-841-1994
inta-aussie.com
800-531-9222
newmansvacations.com
800-421-3326
Qantas Vacations
800-348-8150
Swain Tours
800-22swain
swainaustralia.com
southeastasia.com
800-642-2742
Pob E328
Queen Victoria Ter.
Canberra, Act, 2600
Australia
61-6-273-1000
Fax: 61-6-273-4999
australia.com
Australia Tourism
Pob 646
King's Cross Nsw
2011, M 650
Australia
61-2-360-3500
Fax: 61-2-360-3500
Australia Tourism
2049 Century Pk. E.
#1920
Los Angeles, Ca 90067
310-552-1215
Fax: 310-552-1215
800-Down Under
800-369-6863
800-333-0139
New Zealand is in the southwest
Pacific, three hours from Sydney, Australia and about 11 hours from Los Angeles
by plane. It is an English speaking
country with a population of about four million. Auckland, the largest city, has a population
of around one million.
New Zealanders, like the rest of
the British Commonwealth, drive on the left of the road.
New Zealand is spread over three
relatively small islands with modern transportation, air flights and rail. The people speak English.
New Zealand is made up of two
major islands (north and south) and several small islands:
Chatham Islands, southeast of
NZ.
Cook Islands in the north.
Tokelau, up near Kiribali.
Wellington is the capital city
but it's much smaller than Auckland with a population of 150,000. It's at the southern end of North
Island. It's very windy there.
Aotearoa is what the Maoris
called New Zealand, the land of the long white cloud.
Auckland is in the north of
North Island. The population is over a
million. It's the big NZ city but not
the capital city.
Rotorua is the site of several
craters, volcanoes, geysers and hot springs 135 miles se of Auckland.
South Island is colder and more
sparsely populated than North Island.
The big city is Christchurch.
At the southern tip of South
Island, there is an island called Stewart Island which houses Stewart Island
National Park.
Christchurch city is located
midway down the east coast of the South Island with a population of around
350,000. It is a mix of natural beauty,
old charm (big, old buildings patterned after England) and bohemian art.
The Chatham Islands are a group
of 10 islands east of New Zealand within a 40-kilometre radius. Chatham Island is the biggest island.
The Cook Islands in the South
Pacific Ocean is made up of 15 small islands.
The Cook Islands are 3500km (2200 miles) northeast of New Zealand and
1000km (600 miles) southwest of Tahiti.
Tokelau is made up of three
atolls; Atafu, Fakaofo and Nukunonu.
Try onetravel.com for cheap air
travel.
Try airbnb.com, craigslist.org
and tripadvisor.com for places to stay.
Try #919.3 at the library.
New Zealand Tourism
Pob 95
Wellington
New Zealand
64-4-4728860
Fax: 64-4-4781736
info@ touristpublications.com.nz
newzealand.com
newzealandtourism.com
visitnewzealand.com
newzealandnz.co.nz
tourism.govt.nz
touristpublications.com.nz
nzpages.co.nz
tourism.net.nz
newzealand.com
purenz.com
cbp.govt.nz
mch.govt.nz/ref/enz/index,
encyclopedia of new zealand.
nztb.govt.nz
immigration.govt.nz
mft.govt.nz/travel/index.html,
ministry of foreign affairs.
New Zealand Tourism
501 Santa Monica Blvd.
#300
Santa Monica, Ca 90401
310-395-7480
800-388-5494
866 639 9325
Fax: 310-395-5453
activenewzealand.com
800-500-3398
Air New Zealand
800-262-1234
Embassies in New Zealand
australia.org.nz
britain.org.nz
dfait-maeci.gc.ca/newzealand,
canada.
fiji.org.nz
ireland.co.nz
Farm New Zealand Tours
12115 100th Ave. Ne
Kirkland, Wa 98034
800-788-6685
Kaikoura Information Centre
Pob 6, Kaikoura
New Zealand
01l-64-319-5M1
Kaikoura Seafaris
89 S. Bay Parade
Kaikoura, South Island
New Zealand
011-64-513-5145
Marine mammal-watching capital
of the southern Pacific.
newzealand.com
866 new zealand
New Zealand Embassies
nzembassy.com, links to most nz
embassies.
nzembassy.com/uk, england.
nzhcottawa.org, canada.
nzemb.org, nzcgla.com, united
states.
pedaltours.co.nz
888-222-9187
purenz.com
800-388-5494
866-639-9325
seriousfunnewzealand.com
800-411-5724
The South Pacific Islands are
sometimes called Oceania.
Naura and Kiribaldi are up north
relatively speaking midway between Hawaii and Australia away from most of the
Pacific Islands.
Easter Island and Robinson
Crusoe Island are owned Chile. They’re
way over on the East Pacific as is the Galapagos owned by Ecuador.
Most of the rest of the islands
jut down in an archipelago starting at Papaua, New Guinea except for Fiji,
Western Samao and Tonga off to the east on their own then further east of that
is French Polynesia/ Tahiti off on its own.
Iwo Jima in the north is owned
by Japan.
The Philippines is about 7007
islands up in the north.
Indonesia owns a bunch of
islands.
The United States owns a number
of islands like:
American Samoa
Baker Island
Federated States of Micronesia
Guam
Howland Island
Jarvis Island
Kingman Reef
Marshall Islands
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Truk Island
Wake Island
Yap
Bougainville is technically part
of Papua New Guinea although most natives don't think so.
East Timor was a Catholic island
in Indonesia, a former Portuguese colony, who voted for independence in 1999
whereupon Indonesia invaded and claimed it as its 27th province. It is now an independent country. Indonesia is out. It is a mostly Catholic island.
The Marshall Islands is made up
of 29 coral atolls. It is a Micronesian
island nation located in the Western Pacific Ocean, north of Nauru and
Kiribati. The population is 60,000. The capital is Majuro. You need a passport to enter the Marshall
Islands.
New Caledonia/
Nouvelle-Calédonie is a French dependency with a main island (Grande-Terre De
La Nouvelle-Calédonie) and several smaller islands.
The land mass of Niue is 259
square kilometers.
The island of New Guinea is
divided into two countries. Papua New
Guinea/ PNG is in the east. Indonesia
owns the other side. They call it Papua
province.
Papua New Guinea also owns
numerous offshore islands. PNG has been
called the last frontier by some. There
are still natives living like old times there.
They say there are over a hundred tribes there. I’ve seen a few documentaries of white guys
building nice houses in the jungle using solar panels. The natives are there. Some of them speak English but chose to live
in grass huts away from civilization.
Fiji is a former British
colony. Many natives died from diseases
brought over by the Europeans. In 1970,
Fiji became an independent, democratic nation.
There has been some turbulence between native Fijians and Indo-Fijians,
immigrants from India but they say everything is fine now and the government is
stable. There are 320 islands. About a
hundred are inhabited. The population is
around 900,000.
There are two Samoas, American
Samoa governed by the United States and Western Samoa, an independent country.
If you go to an American-run
island like Guam, you could think you were in Hawaii or in any American town
near the ocean.
Hong Kong and Macau are
Chins-owned islands. Macau is the Las
Vegas of Asia. See pictures of it on a
search engine images feature.
Singapore is a wealthy island
south of Malaysia which owns several islands.
As a former British colony, it’s very English.
Use onetravel.com for cheap air
travel.
Try airbnb.com, craigslist.org
and tripadvisor.com for places to stay.
Try #919 at the library.
The 56 volumes are as follows:
Volume 1. Australia Travel Guide
Volume 2. Australia Guide
Volume 3. Australia
Accommodation Guide
Volume 4. Australia Website
Guide from dmoz-odp.org/Regional/Oceania/Australia
Volume 5. An Australia Website
Guide at feedspot
Volume 6. New Zealand Travel
Guide
Volume 7. New Zealand Life Guide
Volume 8. New Zealand
Accommodation Guide
Volume 9. A New Zealand Website
Guide at feedspot
Volume 10. A Big List of New
Zealand Websites from natlib.govt.nz/files/data/tepunawebdirectory.xml
Volume 11. South Pacific
Islands/ Oceania Travel Guide
Volume 12. Oceania Website Guide
from dmoz-odp.org/Regional/Oceania
Volume 13. Pacific Islands Media
Guide
Volume 14. World Island Guide
Volume 15. Hawaii Guide for
Tourists, Citizens and Job-Seekers
Volume 16. U.S. Pacific
Territories Guide
Volume 17. Philippines
Travel-Expat Guide, includes Nightlife
Volume 18. Australia-Pacific Job
Guide
Volume 19. An Australia Job
Website Guide
Volume 20. Australia Specific
Job Guide
Volume 21. Australia-New
Zealand-Pacific Job Guide
Volume 22. New Zealand Job Guide
Volume 23. Oceania Job Website
Guide from dmoz-odp.org/Regional/Oceania/Business_and_Economy/Employment
Volume 24. An Australia Business
Website Guide at dmoz-odp.org/Regional/Oceania/Australia/Business_and_Economy
Volume 25. Australia NGO Guide
Volume 26. Australia-NZ-Pacific
Business, Government, etc.
Volume 27. Find Practical
Information on Australia-NZ and the Pacific Islands
Volume 29. An Australia-NZ
Education Website Guide
Volume 30. An Australia-New
Zealand Education Website Guide at dmoz-odp.org/Regional/Oceania
Volume 31. Australia-New Zealand
Grade School-College Guide
Volume 32. Oceania Education
Websites at dmoz-odp.org/Regional/Oceania/Education
Volume 33. Oceania/ Pacific
Islands Grade School Guide
Volume 34. Asia-Oceania-Pacific
Islands Colleges and Universities
Volume 35. Australia-New Zealand
Art Guide
Volume 36. Asia-Pacifica Art
Guide
Volume 37. Australia-New
Zealand-Oceania Medical-Health Guide 1
Volume 38. Australia-New
Zealand-Oceania Medical-Health Guide 2
Volume 39. Australia-NZ-Oceania
Medical Websites from dmoz-odp.org/Regional/Oceania
Volume 40. Australia Cancer
Guide
Volume 41. Australia-NZ-Oceania
Law Guide
Volume 42. A List of NZ-Oceania
Government and Organization Websites by Country
Volume 43. Australia Love-Sex
Guide
Volume 44. Australia-New
Zealand-Pacific Islands Gay Guide
Volume 45. New Zealand Love-Sex
Guide
Volume 46. Asia Redlight Guide
Volume 47. Thailand Redlight
Guide
Volume 48. A Straight List of Job Websites Country by
Country from list-job-sites.com
Volume 49. A Straight List of
Job Websites Country by Country from angloinfo.com
Volume 50. allyoucanread.com
Provides Job Websites by Country
Volume 51. Country Immigration
Website Guide
Volume 52. Working Abroad in
General
Volume 53. Expat Website Guide
Volume 54. Expat Website Guide
by Country
Volume 55. World Recruiter Guide
Volume 56. World Telephone
Information
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