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Queenstown had been dominated by mining for over a century. Then the artists came

Whether you have a day or a week, these hikes will bring you to some of the best of this iconic national park.

Once a preferred way to travel quickly cross country, trains are becoming popular again and Australia has several great ones to experience.

Yosemite National Park, scenic mountain region in east-central California, U.S. The park, which encompasses 1,189 square miles (3,080 square km), was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1984.

Sure wasn’t an easy hike up to the top of 13,061′ Mount Dana with 3,000′ gain in elevation over 2 1/2 miles, full of rocks of every size, shape and slipperiness on switchbacks too many to count. All of my hard work was richly rewarded with many Pikas and Marmots paying visits along the route. ...

Buried in last week’s budget was money for rehabilitating the Rum Jungle uranium mine near Darwin. The exact sum was not disclosed. Rum Jungle used to be a household name. It was Australia’s first large-scale uranium mine and supplied the US and British nuclear weapons programs during the Cold War. Today, the mine is better known for extensively polluting the Finniss River after it closed in 1971. Despite a major rehabilitation project by the Commonwealth in the 1980s, the damage to the l...