Coober Pedy

Ayers Rock to Coober Pedy

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June 3rd 2011
Ayers Rock to Coober Pedy The morning started at the fuel bowser – filling up 80.5L @ 180.6c/L. Shortly after leaving Yalara we came across Mount Connor – around 3 times the size of Uluru, easily mistaken by many overseas tourists on their drive in! The top of the mountain appeared so flat compared with Ayers Rock, as though someone had compressed it down as flat as the surrounding l ... 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