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Uluru
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Uluru
a large isolated desert rock, sometimes described as the world's largest monolith, in the Northern Territory of Australia: sacred to local Aboriginal people. Height: 330m (1100 ft.). Base circumference: 9 km (5.6 miles)


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The first was the infamous Azaria Chamberlain case in 1980, when a dingo snatched a baby from a tent at Uluru rock in the central Australian desert, an event dramatised in the Meryl Streep movie "A Cry in the Dark".
Bush fires are as permanent a fixture in Australia as the great red Uluru Rock.
While there, they travel on camels, see the outback, meet a wise Aboriginal couple, visit the sacred Uluru rock site, and learn about the native animals and creation myths of Australia.
 
 
 
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