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Mandalay and Shalimar Luxury Beachfront Apartments
Mandalay Shalimar Luxury Beachfront Apartments provides Port Douglas holiday accommodation ranging from apartments and beach houses. Offers ultimate convenience, within easy walking distance of t…
Posted by TravelAU on April 26th, 2009 at 11:08pm — No Comments
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Cairns Eco Tourism and Heritage Rainforest Tours - Billy Tea
Cairns Tour company based in Queensland offers Eco Tourism and Heritage Daintree Rainforest tours of a lifetime.
A family owned company, offers 4WD personalised day tours to the World Heritage…
Posted by TravelAU on April 26th, 2009 at 11:04pm — No Comments
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Noosa Holiday Accommodation in Australia - Sebel Noosa
Offers location and luxury with an opportunity to enjoy the best Noosa holidays with furnished accommodation surrounded by world-class restaurants, hotels and up-market fashion bouti…
Posted by TravelAU on April 26th, 2009 at 10:36pm — No Comments
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Cruises on the Great Barrier Reef
Orpheus Island Resort in Queensland, offers luxurious resort facilities to enjoy exotic tour & holidays in one of the world's greatest natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef.
Just a few kilometres from the Australian mainland, Orpheus Island feels a univ…
Posted by TravelAU on April 24th, 2009 at 3:28am — No Comments
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Cairns Budget Accommodation and Holidays
The Lakes Cairns resort and spa located between the rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef offers luxury Cairns beach resort facilities and luxurious holiday accommodation in cairns, Queensland.
Located just 3kms from Cairns city centre and next to 300 a…
Posted by TravelAU on April 23rd, 2009 at 10:34pm — No Comments
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Florida Keys ill-prepared for rising sea
Despite being called 'ground zero' for sea-level rise in the United States, the Florida Keys have lagged behind the rest of South Florida in planning for the potentially massive problem.Seagrass losses reveal global coastal crisis
A global study of seagrass, which can absorb large amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide, found that 29 percent of the world's known seagrass had disappeared since 1879 and the losses were accelerating. ... seagrass meadows were "among the most threatened ecosystems on earth" due to population growth, development, climate change and ecological degradation. ... The study said the loss of seagrass was comparable to losses in coral reefs, tropical rainforests and mangroves.Elderly, Kids Urged to Skip Hajj Over Swine Flu
The Saudi kingdom invited experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, and others to a four-day meeting in the western seaport city of Jiddah to examine Saudi measures to prevent the spread of swine flu during the Muslim pilgrimage.Faster Atmospheric Warming In Subtropics Pushes Jet Streams Toward Poles
The atmosphere is warming faster in subtropical areas, around 30 degrees north and south latitude, than it is elsewhere, University of Washington-led research shows. But scientists examining more than 25 years of satellite data also found that each hemisphere's jet stream has moved toward the pole by about 1 degree of latitude, or 70 miles.Earth's Most Prominent Rainfall Feature Creeping Northward
The rain band near the equator [the ITCZ] that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years, probably because of a warmer world,Dust Plumes off Coast of Western Africa
Satellite image - also showing the Cape Verde islands
When Money Divides You: The Difference Between Tourist and Local
Locals often assume that travelers are loaded, and most of the time, it's comparatively true. Backpackers tend to carry a lot of cash. Bloggers stash laptops and cameras in their specialized padded backpacks, also not cheap. Even the most frugal will usually have an ipod. Imagine that your third-hand beaten down ipod costs more than a month's even a year's salary to many people across this planet. But just because a traveler has more money than a local, does that mean we should necessarily pay a higher price for the exact same service? On the one hand: What difference does that fifty cents make to you? How much more would it mean to your boat driver and the family he supports?America’s Mean Streak Map
The mean centre of US population is “the point at which an imaginary, flat, weightless and rigid map of the US would balance perfectly if weights of identical value were placed on it so that each weight represented the location of one person on the date of the census”, in the definition of the US Census Bureau itself. That bureau has been holding censuses every decade since 1790; these censuses form the backdrop for this string of mean centres of population in the US. The map shows an ever westward shift of that centre, obviously in parallel with the westward expansion of the US and its citizenry.Going Places with Geography Part 2
Going Places with Geography is the new progression and careers video from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Geography Ambassador Project.Map of the Week: Better Life Cycle
This week’s featured map shows an amazing journey of one man’s unsupported bike ride from London to Cape Town, stopping to deliver £100,000 of sponsorship directly to orphanages en route.Free Geography Tools
Exploring the world of free tools for GIS, GPS, Google Earth, neogeography, and more.YouTube - Going Places with Geography Part 1
Going Places with Geography is the new progression and careers video from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)'s Geography Ambassador Project.Looking for a Relaxing Summer Vacation? Don't Travel Here
With So Many Places in the World Worth Seeing, Avoid These Danger Zones [or not - if you are into Extreme Tourism] - Travel Warnings for Iran, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Lebanon, Mali, Chad, Nepal, Yemen, Georgia, SudanDethroned Nepal King's Palace Now a Tourist Haunt
He has had to flee his palace, with its Graceland-meets-the-Himalayas decor, and decamp to a house up the hill. His only son, the hard-living former crown prince, has moved to Singapore. And now, in a crowning indignity, tourists are traipsing through what was once a private world sealed off by soldiers and tall brick walls.Europe’s poorest Country
Moldova, once part of Romania, has the unhappy distinction of being Europe’s poorest country. Historically, due to its strategic location on a route between Asia and Europe, Moldova was repeatedly invaded: Bastarns, Sarmatians, Goths, Huns, Avars, Magyars and the Mongols all fought over this small country. Recently, the 1998 financial crisis in Russia, (Moldova’s main economic partner at the time) produced an economic crisis in the country. The standard of living plunged, with 75% of population living below the poverty line, while the economic disaster caused 600,000 people to eventually leave the country. The remaining population is mostly the very old and the very young, with few in between.About Travelography Travel News
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