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Sydney is the Capital city of New South Wales and the most populated city in Australia. It is located on the East coast on the Tasman Sea.

VK2 is a very large and diverse state. Mt Kosciusko located in the Snowy Mountains in the states south east is the highest peak in the country whilst White Cliffs and Tibooburra in the north west share the highest recorded temperatures of 46 degrees Celsius in the shade. Australia's longest river, the Darling River, is a dividing line between the flat arid areas to the west and the still flat areas which run off from the Great Dividing Range to the east. The Great Dividing Range runs from southern VK3 to the tip of VK4. The most populated regions of Australia are located on the strip of land between the great Dividing Range and the coast.

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In 1845, Captain Charles Sturt, in search for the mythical "Inland Sea" in 1845, used Depot Glen and Fort Grey as base camps. His party was stranded at Depot Glen for six months due to drought. In April 1846 they broke out of Depot Glen and headed north (through what is now Tibooburra) to make another base camp at Lake Pinarroo at Fort Grey. From there he headed through the junction of VKs2,4 &5 (Cameron Corner) to the Stzelecki creek, then north to the Cooper creek at Innamincka and then still further north through the Stony Desert to what is now Birdsville , then west into the Simpson Desert. He failed to find the inland sea (thousands of years too late) and just managed to return to Fort Grey. Charles Sturt is one of Australia's least appreciated explorers. In 1828 he explored the routes of the Macquarie and Darling Rivers and in 1829 he rowed up down the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers to the coast and then returned.

The Snowy Mountains photos were all taken from the Mt. Kosciusko area in 1994. Access to the mountain was by foot from Perisher Valley.

The Three Sisters, Wentworth Falls and the Zig Zag railway are located in the Blue Mountains, on the western outskirts of Sydney.

Mutawintji National Park is a magnificent area consisting of "beautiful gorges, lined with majestic river gums occasionally punctuated with dark mysterious rock pools." The area is full of Aboriginal rock art and is an Aboriginal sacred area.