Far, far below me, the country's highest mountain, Mount Cook, reared up, looking distant yet strangely clear, as if in a Google Earth image.

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Sitting on the warm sandstone at the top of Ubirr rock and peering over the edge to palm trees far below, I am dizzyingly aware that the scene before me has remained unchanged since prehistory.

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