Fly Ted Down Under Journeys through the land of Oz

Broome & Cable Beach

AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 5 June 2011 | Views [418]

One half of Cable Beach, looking south. Gantheaume Point is in the distance, about 8 km away. This represents barely a third of Cable Beach, which stretches about 22 km long.

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Cable Beach is where Australia's third telegraph cable came ashore in 1889, a direct line from Broome to Java and on to Europe. This beach is where it was first brought onto land, and then was fed into the telegraph station in town where messages were then transferred across Australia.

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Broome & Cable Beach

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