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ABBEY medieval festival
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When:
Annually in July (2009 TBC)
Where: Abbey Museum in Caboolture, Queensland , Australia
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The Abbey Medieval Festival is a highly successful living history festival, attracting thousands of people annually to the Caboolture Shire. It has become the largest and most prestigious event of its kind in Australia with over 300 medieval re-enactors - musicians, dancers and street performers participating and enthralling the crowds. In 2006, 18500 people took part in the festival. More than 404,000 hits occurred on the festival web site in the month leading up to the festival, from all over the world.
[www.abbeymuseum.asn.au]
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IMPORTANT:
Please note that the details of the event are subject to change.
We strongly recommended that you check with the organizers
before making any travel arrangements.
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Event related information:
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background and overview:
Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt.
James COOK took possession in the name of Great Britain. Six colonies were created in the late 18th and 19th centuries; they federated and became the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. The new country took advantage of its natural resources to rapidly develop agricultural and manufacturing industries and to make a major contribution to the British effort in World Wars I and II. In recent decades, Australia has transformed itself into an internationally competitive, advanced market economy.
It boasted one of the OECD's fastest growing economies during the 1990s, a performance due in large part to economic reforms adopted in the 1980s. Long-term concerns include pollution, particularly depletion of the ozone layer, and management and conservation of coastal areas, especially the Great Barrier Reef.
[Courtesy of The World Factbook]
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 Location: Oceania, continent between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean. |
Languages:
English |
Climate:
Generally arid to semiarid; temperate in south and east; tropical in north. |
Capital:
Canberra |
Time Zone:
UTC+8–+10
Summer (DST) UTC+8–+11 |
Currency (code):
Australian dollar (AUD) |
Call Code:
+61 |
Electric Power:
230V 50 Hz |
Tourist office:
Australian Tourist Commission,
Level Four, 80 Wil |
Tourist website:
Click Here |
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