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Uluru (ayers rock)sits on a very well known part of Australia (the middle of Australia) and is owned by the Anangu tribe and has been for many years.
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Uluru (ayers rock) is located in the northern territory and its coordinates are 25.3444° S, 131.0369°
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Uluru can be accessed by air with direct flights from major Australian airports and via Alice Springs airport. The Red Centre Way drive is ideal for those wanting a self-drive adventure or you can join one of many organised tours from Alice Springs.
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Uluru dated back 500 million years ago when Australia was formed, Large blocks were moving closer together to create Australia, kind of like the way India is moving closer to Eurasian. And because of that, big mountain ranges were being built.
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Some geologists have proposed that the Rock evolved slowly some 550 to 600 million years ago, when sandy material was slowly left from the Musgrave Ranges and moved 100 km northwards by water slowly moving into a large depression.
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Then about 350 million radiometric years ago, the sandy material, by that time hardened to form sandstone, is thought to have been pushed up and tilted by earth movements. Over the next 250 million years slow erosion processes carved out the present shape of Ayers Rock, a shape which they say has been little changed over the past 100 million years.
Uluru (Ayers Rock) is 348 metres above the desert plain and reaches a height 863 metres above sea level.
Uluru is oval in shape, measuring 3.6 km long by 2.4 km wide, with a circumference of 9.4 km.
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It's taller than the Eiffel Tower and wider than 3 Harbour Bridges and it's circumference is longer than the Bay Run.
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It takes about 3.5 hours to walk around the base and There is even more of it underground.
The first European we know of who visited and climbed Uluru was explorer William Gosse. In 1873 he named it Ayers Rock after Sir Henry Ayers, Chief Secretary of South Australia.
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The people of the land were given back Uluru and the national park so they could take care of it and protect it.
It was given back to the people on the 26 of October 1985 and it was officially renamed to its former name Uluru.
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Some things they did to protect it was not allowing people to climb it anymore and not allowing plastic.
