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Here is the photo of Uluru/Ayers Rock from the Qantas flight to Singapore. It might not be perfect in quality but it's hard to do any better (even though the aircraft tilted towards the rock at the moment of passing - purposedly or not I don`t know) in a few seconds of passing by through those little windows.
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From Wikipedia:
Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, is a large sandstone rock formation in central Australia, in the Northern Territory. It is located in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, 440 km southwest of Alice Springs. Uluru is sacred to the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara, the Aboriginal people of the area. It has many springs, waterholes, rock caves and ancient paintings. Uluru is listed as a World Heritage Site for its natural and man-made attributes. It is one of Australia's best known natural wonders and tourist sites.
The local Pitjantjatjara people call the landmark Uluṟu (IPA: /uluɻu/). This word has no other meaning in Pitjantjatjara, but it is a local family name. The underlined ṟ in Uluṟu is a retroflex approximant, as used by some American English speakers.

In October 1872 the explorer Ernest Giles was the first non-indigenous person to sight the rock formation. He saw it from a considerable distance, and was prevented by Lake Amadeus from approaching closer. He described it as “the remarkable pebble”. On 19 July 1873, the surveyor William Gosse visited the rock and named it Ayers Rock in honour of the then Chief Secretary of South Australia, Sir Henry Ayers. The Aboriginal name was first recorded by the Wills expedition in 1903. Since then, both names have been used, although Ayers Rock was the most common name used by outsiders until recently.

In 1993, a dual naming policy was adopted that allowed official names that consist of both the traditional Aboriginal name and the English name. On 15 December 1993, it was renamed “Ayers Rock/Uluru” and became the first officially dual named feature in the Northern Territory. The order of the dual names was officially reversed to “Uluru/Ayers Rock” on 6 November 2002 following a request from the Regional Tourism Association in Alice Springs.

Uluru is 346 metres high, more than 8 km (five miles) around, and has a harder exterior than many comparable rock formations. This has prevented the formation of scree slopes, resulting in the unusually steep faces near ground level.

Uluru is often referred to as a monolith, and for many years it was even listed in record books as the world’s largest monolith. That description is inaccurate, as it is part of a much larger underground rock formation.

Uluru is notable for appearing to change colour as the different light strikes it at different times of the day and year, with sunset a particularly remarkable sight. The rock is made of arkosic sandstone infused with minerals like feldspar that reflect the red light of sunrise and sunset, making it appear to glow. The rock gets its rust colour from oxidation.

Rainfall is uncommon in the area around Uluru, but during wet periods the rock acquires a silvery-grey colour, with streaks of black algae on the areas serving as channels for water flow. The rock itself is completely lacking in vegetation, but due to runoff the base is surrounded by water pools, fertile greenery, and wildlife. It has thus been an ideal meeting place for Aboriginal ceremonies throughout history.

Kata Tjuta, also called Mount Olga or The Olgas, literally meaning “many heads” owing to its peculiar formation, is another rock formation about 25 km from Uluru. Special viewing areas with road access and parking have been constructed to give tourists the best views of both sites at dawn and dusk. A common mistake is to include Kata Tjuta as part of the Uluru formation, but it is in fact made of a different material (conglomerate).

The beginning of human settlement in the Uluru region has not been determined, but archaeological findings to the east and west indicate a date more than 10,000 years ago. In 1920, the Northern Territory administration gazetted the south-west corner of the territory, including Uluru, as the Petermann Aboriginal reserve, thus preventing the expansion of pastoral leases into that area. However, Uluru and Kata Tjuta were excised from the reserve in 1958 with the intention of opening them up to tourism.

On 26 October 1985, the Australian government returned ownership of Uluṟu to the local Pitjantjatjara Aborigines, with one of the conditions being that the Anangu would lease it back to the National Parks and Wildlife for 99 years and that it would be jointly managed. The Aboriginal community of Mutitjulu (pop. approx. 300) is near the western end of Uluru. From Uluru it is 17 km by road to the tourist town of Yulara (pop. 3,000), which is situated just outside of the National Park.

A variety of Aborigine legends account for the existence of Uluru and its many cracks and fissures. One tells of serpent beings who waged many wars around Uluṟu, scarring the rock. Another myth recounts that two tribes of ancestral spirits were invited to a feast, but were distracted by the beautiful Sleepy Lizard Women and did not show up. In response, the angry hosts sang evil into a mud sculpture that came to life as the dingo. There followed a great battle, which ended in the deaths of the leaders of both tribes. The earth itself rose up in grief at the bloodshed — this is Uluru.