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AYERS ROCK

JUST BEFORE SUNRISE
AYERS ROCK/ULURU CRISSCROSSING AUSTRALIA

November 30th 2009
Excerpt from my book Our Summer in Australia & New Zealand: Amazon.com Day Eleven. I had been looking forward to this day since first planning the trip to Australia. Climbing Ayers Rock at sunrise! It’s really not dangerous. Since records were kept beginning in 1960, there’s been only one fatality every two years, on average. Considering my life so far, those are very acceptable odds. The j ... read more
Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Uluru

Australian Flag 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... ... read more
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