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| Aberdeen Australia - Highland Games |
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When:
Jul 2 , 2011
Where: Jefferson Park, Aberdeen , Australia
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Once a year, the Australian town Aberdeen becomes a center of traditional sport contests that include in addition to sport, parades and impressive ceremonies.
The Scottish Highland Games started in 1892 and since they take place all over Scotland and among Scottish concentrations in USA, New-Zealand, Australia, etc...
The traditional games include contests that are not known on worldwide sport. Contests in throwing boles, heavy hammers, iron balls, rocks, etc...
The music played by the bagpipes is heard all day over the place. Thousands visitors enjoy being hosted in colorful giant tents and offered lot of whisky and beer.
The judges and part of the participants wear Kilt, the traditional Scottish skirt.
The tents, the joy, lot of whisky and the peculiar contests create a unique traditional atmosphere that promises exciting experience to all the visitors.
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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:
Tourism Australia Contact Details - Sydney Office: Darling Park, Tower 2, Level 18 201 Sussex Street Sydney NSW 2000 Post: GPO Box 2721, Sydney NSW 1006 Tel: +61 2 9360 1111 Fax: +61 2 9331 6469 |
Tourist website:
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