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A 32-year legal mystery over the death of a baby in Australia's outback came to an end on Tuesday when a coroner found a dingo was responsible for killing infant Azaria Chamberlain, a case that split national opinion and attracted global headlines.

The coroner's finding ends a three-decade fight for justice by Azaria's parents, Michael Chamberlain and Lindy Chamberlain, who was jailed for three years over her daughter's death before she was later cleared.

"This has been a terrifying battle, bitter at times, but now some healing, and a chance to put our daughter's spirit to rest," Michael Chamberlain told reporters in the Northern Territory capital Darwin after the coroner's ruling.

Azaria disappeared on Aug 17, 1980 from a tent in a camping ground near Uluru, a towering, haunting monolith formerly known as Ayers Rock, one of central Australia's main tourist attractions.

The girl's body was never found. Her parents always maintained she was taken by a dingo, an Australian native wild dog.

The dingo-baby case has been dramatized several times, and was turned into a Hollywood film A Cry in the Dark, starring Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep as Lindy Chamberlain.

Northern Territory Coroner Elizabeth Morris found evidence from the case proved a dingo or dingoes were responsible for 9-week-old Azaria's death and ruled that her death certificate should read "attacked and taken by a dingo".

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