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Uluru rock formations Panorama from the top of Uluru, showing a typical gully Close-up view of Uluru's surface, composed of arkose Uluru is an inselberg . [ 46 ] [ 47 ] [ 48 ] An inselberg is a prominent isolated residual knob or hill that rises abruptly from and is surrounded by extensive and relatively flat erosion lowlands in a hot, dry ...
Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park is a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia.The park is home to both Uluru and Kata Tjuta.It is located 1,943 kilometres (1,207 mi) south of Darwin by road and 440 kilometres (270 mi) south-west of Alice Springs along the Stuart and Lasseter Highways.
Lasseter Highway is a fully sealed 244 km (152 mi) highway in the Northern Territory of Australia. [1] It connects Yulara, Kata Tjuta and Uluru east to the Stuart Highway at Erldunda. [2]
The area features a succession of sandy dunes, with a history spanning over 700,000 years, and is rich in biodiversity. The vegetation includes tropical rainforests, mangroves, and dry shrublands, and there are more than 350 species of birds. [30] The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area New South Wales, Queensland: 2010
Area (km 2) Area (miles 2) Area rank % of Australia Great Victoria Desert: South Australia Western Australia: 348,750 km 2: 134,650 sq mi 1 4.5% Great Sandy Desert: Northern Territory Western Australia 267,250 km 2: 103,190 sq mi 2 3.5% Tanami Desert: Northern Territory Western Australia 184,500 km 2: 71,200 sq mi 3 2.4% Simpson Desert ...
Articles relating to Uluru, its history, and its depictions. It is a large sandstone formation in the centre of Australia. Uluru is sacred to the Pitjantjatjara, the Aboriginal people of the area, known as the Aṉangu. The area around the formation is home to an abundance of springs, waterholes, rock caves and ancient paintings.
Tourism sign post in Yalgoo, Western Australia. The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia.The Outback is more remote than the bush.While often envisaged as being arid, the Outback regions extend from the northern to southern Australian coastlines and encompass a number of climatic zones, including tropical and monsoonal climates in northern areas, arid areas in the ...
Pitjantjatjara people live in the area around Uluru / Ayers Rock and south to the Great Australian Bight. The sacred sites of Uluru / Ayers Rock and Kata Tjuṯa / Mount Olga possess important spiritual and ceremonial significance for the Anangu with more than 40 named sacred sites and 11 separate Tjukurpa (or "Dreaming") tracks in the area ...