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Uluru

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February 4th 2017
After a late night at Uluru seeing it with the setting sun, we were up at 4am to again go to the large monolith and see it with the rising sun. For such an out of the way place, in the middle of the Australian desert, there were hundreds of tourists out late and up at dawn doing the same thing we have done. Also last night, I had a problem transferring my photos of Uluru to my laptop so I was unab ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Uluru

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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