The Kokoda Track is a great example of how a historic route can be meaningful for people today. Site of a decisive jungle campaign in the Pacific War, it is a place for both commemoration and personal challenge today. Every year several thousand people travel to Papua-New Guinea to walk a jungle track across the …
Category: Oceania
Sandridge Line – The First Railway in Australia
Melbourne was neither the biggest nor the oldest city in the Australian colonies in 1854. Yet on 12. September of that year the inhabitants gathered to watch cutting edge technology in their town. The opening of the first railway line in Australia. Let’s take a closer look why modern transportation made its way to that …