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Disney announced that it has put an office in Sydney Austrailia in order to support it's players there. Here is what Virtual World News reported today:

"Disney.com.au's user base doubled to almost 800,000 over the last year as the company added more and more online games and interactive elements. It hadn't brought one of its biggest online successes, though, Club Penguin, but users from Down Under were still making their way to the kids virtual world. To keep pace, Disney will be adding a local staff in Sydney to support Club Penguin by August.

"One of the reasons why we're very excited about the opportunity here is that there is already a pretty sizeable audience of people from Australia going to Club Penguin," Duncan Orrell-Jones, head of the Walt Disney Internet Group for Asia Pacific, told News.com.au. "If you look around the world, Australia ranks way up there in terms of our brand appeal - it's sort of neck and neck with the US."

The Official Club Penguin website

Link to Virtual World News