Australia: Land Beyond Time

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and its moist rainforest all

but disappeared

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At the centre

the desert was taking over

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Australia's plants

and animals faced a choice

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adapt to the drying conditions

or retreat

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Now the symbol of

Australia's red heart is Uluru

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the Earth's largest exposed rock

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lt commemorates the relationship

between life and this land

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Today Australia is the

Earth's flattest continent

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lts mountains were worn to their stumps

millions of years ago

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The Nullarbor plain on its southern coast

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has the world's

longest unbroken coastal cliffs

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Once you could walk to Antarctica

from here

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lf the dry Outback is a land ocean

these parallel sand dunes are its waves

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Stretching beyond the horizons

they cover nearly half of the continent

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Millions of years of rain

and drying winds

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long ago leached the goodness

from most of its soil

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ln the red centre there is no regular

predictable pattern of rainfall

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Poor soils and a savage climate

now challenge all life in this land

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Nature responded to the

changing conditions

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The kangaroo started

its journey as a marsupial possum

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