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 Uluru (Australia)



Evening    Holy place   Trailhead

the Ohira field of the Australia central part -- suddenly - rocky mountain Ayers Rock which appears by carrying out. For a former occupant aborigine's people, it is called "Uluru (place of = shade)" as a sacred place. Since iron oxidized, a rock surface is red, surface striped patterns are the marks of the section of a stratum, it is met further and the hole and the slot are deleted with a wind or rain. An aborigine's mural painting is also drawn on the big valley with a spring by the rock.
 Until it can do  Mountain climbing  Aborigine
The stratum of the sandstone which serves as Ayers Rock in front of about 500 million years and in the back sank to the seabed, and sand and mud accumulated it upwards. The 100 million years after, there is intense movement, and the stratum shifted, or bent and upheaved on land. Soon, the soft high portion was shaved off by rain etc. and became the present form. (Illustration) A rock is very sudden and cannot be reached from other than a trailhead. Moreover, the rock surface is polished by the rainstorm, and it is easy to slide on it, it has become, and foil is installed in the steep incline. Although a round trip is about 2 hours, it can be reached only early morning summer for high temperature. It is called 150,000-year before that these natives came to reside permanently. They built the culture based on [ which used the boomerang ] hunting. Moreover, since Uluru is made with the holy place, it never reaches.
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Mixed World Heritage 1987


Official name "Ulul
Katha JUTA national park
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Height: About 348m
Circumference: About 9.4m