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Uluru (/ ˌ uː l ə ˈ r uː /; Pitjantjatjara: Uluṟu [ˈʊlʊɻʊ]), also known as Ayers Rock (/ ˈ ɛər z / AIRS) and officially gazetted as Uluru / Ayers Rock, [1] is a large sandstone monolith. It crops out near the centre of Australia in the southern part of the Northern Territory, 335 km (208 mi) south-west of Alice Springs.
The Ayers Rock National Park was recognised in 1950, and in the same year an Alice Springs resident Len Tuit accompanied a group of schoolboys on a trip to Uluru. He recognised the enormous tourism potential of the rock and began offering regular tours in 1955, with guests camping in tents and drinking water carted in from Curtin Springs.
The sides of Mount Conner are blanketed by scree (talus) and its top is blanketed by colluvium.The base of Mount Conner is surrounded by alluvium. [7] [8] [9]The summit of Mount Conner, along with the summits of low domes in the Kata Tjuta complex and summit levels of Uluru, is an erosional remnant of a Cretaceous geomorphic surface.
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 ...
James Vivian Alfred Doyle (14 October 1945 – 5 May 2006) was an Australian musician, radio presenter and songwriter. He was the founding mainstay guitarist in Ayers Rock (1973–81), a jazz fusion, progressive rock band.
However, the name Uluru predates that of Ayers Rock by almost 10,000 years, given to it by the local indigenous population, the Pitjantjatjara people. [8] According to the Aboriginal Australian creation tradition, known as the Dreaming , the featureless Earth took shape when the ancestors began to cause rocks to form through singing, along with ...
Ayers Rock, officially known as Uluru/Ayers Rock, is a geological feature in Australia. Ayers Rock may also refer to. Ayers Rock, an island in Lake Moawhango, New Zealand; Ayers Rock (band), an Australian rock band; Ayers Rock Airport, an airport in Australia
The Alice Springs Orogeny was a major intraplate tectonic (mountain building) episode in central Australia responsible for the formation of a series of large mountain ranges. [1]