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The Red Centre

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May 17th 2012
Next day we drove all day again into the Northern Territory and to Ayres Rock. It was great (very red) but we couldn’t climb it because it was too windy. Mum and Dad love Ayres Rock. The aboriginies call it Uluru. They bought an aboriginal painting there. All the aboriginal stories originally come from Ayres Rock so it’s a very special place. We did a boring walk and we also saw the olgas. The ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory

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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