Oceania

Sea Cliff Bridge
Australia, Oceania, Places

Sea Cliff Bridge

The Sea Cliff bridge is a balanced cantilever bridge. Shaped like a snake it connects the coastal villages of Coalcliff and Clifton in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It cost 52 million AUD. This bridge is one out of only seven off-shore parallel to coast bridges in the […]

Brighton Beach
Australia, Oceania, Places

Brighton Beach

Brighton Beach is located on the coastline of Port Phillip Bay next to Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Brighton has a population of over 21.200 and is named after its namesake in England. Brighton Beach, however, is well known for its 82 colourful bathing boxes. Not even […]

Entry of Metropolitan Tunnel
Australia, Oceania, Places

Metropolitan Tunnel

The Metropolitan Tunnel is a abandoned railway tunnel next to the small town of Helensburgh in New South Wales, Australia. Built in the 1880s the tunnel was closed a few decades later. Together with 7 other tunnels it is part of a section of the Sutherland to Wollongong line collectively […]

Koala
Australia, Oceania, Places

Maryborough

Located on the Mary River in Queensland, Australia, Maryborough is a city with approximately 21.800 inhabitants. Founded in 1847 it is part of an area called Fraser Coast. Maryborough was named after the Mary River which was named after Lady Mary Lennox. Beloved wife of Charles Augustus Fitzroy, Governor of […]

Coastline
Australia, Oceania, Places

Great Sandy National Park

Great Sandy National Park is part of the Fraser Coast Region in Queensland, Australia. With a size of over 74.400 hectares it stretches from Noosa Heads to Fraser IslandĀ and encompasses almost all of Fraser Island, the world’s largest sand island. Untouched beaches, rainforests, large sand dunes, freshwater lakes and mangrove […]

Skyline
Australia, Oceania, Places

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city of Victoria, Australia. More than 4.529.500 people call it their home. The city is located on the bay of Port Philip an expands towards the mountain ranges of Macedon and Dandenong. Its known for sights as Hosier Lane, Flinders Street Station, Shrine […]

Hosier Lane
Australia, Oceania, Places

Hosier Lane

Talking about things to do in Melbourne, Hosier Lane is one of the most popular of them. The bluestone cobbled laneway in the capital of Victoria, Australia, is famous for its outstanding street art. However, the artists do not only create masterpieces, but send political messages as well. The ever-changing […]

Remains of a jetty
Australia, Oceania, Places

St Kilda

St Kilda is a suburb of the City of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. The area is not only known for its amusement park and Fitzroy Street, but also for its beachside promenade including St Kilda Beach. Named after Lady of St Kilda, a schooner which landed at the main beach […]

The Grampians National Park
Australia, Oceania, Places

The Grampians National Park

The Grampians National Park, also just known as The Grampians, can be found in the Grampians region of Victoria, Australia. Located 260 kilometres west of Melbourne the national park measures over 167.000 hectares. Named Gariwerd in the first place by one of the local Aboriginal Languages, they were named The […]