Ayers Rock I

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August 19th 2006
Flying in over Ayers Rock (Uluru) was breathtaking - nothing prepares you for the sight, after 2hours of flying over flat expanses of outback, of an enourmous monolith rising out of the desert. It's verging on the ridiculous that this rock should exist there at all - Thomas is of the theory that aliens dropped the rock from the sky. Checking-in to our accomodation soon wiped the smiles off o ... read more

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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