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Learn about the annals of Uluru, also known as Ayres Rock and roll, in Australia with iMinds Travel's insightful fast knowledge series. Uluru is the indigenous Australian name for a massive rock formation within central Australia. Made from sandstone, Uluru is a rock and roll monolith or an 'island pile', a formation that geologists refer to as a monadnock. It stands 318 m (986 feet) high and has a circumference of 8 kilometres (5 a long way). It really is located 335 kilometres (208 mi) the west of the nearest rural centre, the top town of Alice Springs. The site was first mapped by Europeans in 1872 during the development of the Australian Overland Telegraph Brand that associated the northern arrangement of Darwin to Interface Augusta in South Australia. Uluru was actually named Mount Olga by Ernest Giles. On another expedition in 1870, the explorer William Gosse renamed the formation Ayers Rock and roll in honour of the Chief Secretary of South Australia, Sir Henry Ayers. The name was made public until 1992, when it was renamed Uluru/Ayers Rock and roll as an official dual title, honouring both the Western and Aboriginal names. Uluru is, as Ernest Giles described it in 1872, the world's "most exceptional pebble".
