The Northern Territory Government has implemented a number of health directions to keep the community safe. It is important to comply with the current travel restrictions and to use the Territory Check-In app to register at visitor sites in the park. Read more. Formerly known as Ayers Rock , Ulu r u is made of sandstone about half a billion years old. It stands metres high and has a circumference of 9. For the A n angu people, Ulu r u is inseparable from Tjuku r pa , or traditional law.
The large holes are due to erosion on the rock, with continuous rainfall filling up the shallow holes until they become deeper and deeper.
This has gone on for centuries, with the rock slowly cutting away to make this unique appearance. Here you can see parallel ridges which outline the sedimentary layers of rock. Wind, as well as rainfall, has caused these parallel crests. The Smooth Rock Surface The smoothed section of Uluru is not a natural occurrence, but due to humans. Despite constant objection from the Anangu people, thousands of non-Indigenous people have climbed to the top of Uluru.
The path up Uluru was first opened in the s and officially closed and made illegal in October The constant foot traffic up the surface of the rock has seen it gradually smoothed. In good news though, the climb has officially been closed and though there is no way to fix the erosion that has already occurred, it will not be made any worse.
This is all due to a chemical decay of the minerals present in the Arkose rock. Arkose is typically a greyish colour, but when the oxidation of the iron mineral present is exposed, the rusty flaky residue causes the colour to change into a rust red. How to Travel to Uluru? It is around a 5-hour drive from Alice Springs, or about a half an hour drive from the town Yulara.
Flights leave most Australian major cities flying to Uluru Airport which saves travellers from the 5-hour trip from Alice Springs. Tourists from all over the world come to see this amazing landmark, either travelling alone or on organized tours. You must buy a national park ticket to enter, which lasts for 3 days.
If you intend to stay longer than that, you can extend your ticket to 5 days at no additional cost. Here you will learn about Anangu culture, traditions and lore, as well as hear inma ceremonial songs and Tjukurpa creation stories. Here are the different ways you can travel to our World Heritage-listed park. Approximate flight times are:. You can find out more on the Tourism NT website. Ulu r u is km from Alice Springs by road.
If you are driving directly this should take about 5. There are only a limited number of rental cars in Yulara, so we strongly recommend booking a few weeks ahead to avoid missing out. The move was made out of respect for the site's cultural importance. It is the same here for Anangu. We welcome tourists here. We are not stopping tourism, just this activity. Many think Uluru is the largest single chunk of rock on the planet, but that's a misconception. Mount Augustus in Western Australia is actually the largest monolith around.
Though it can't lay claim to this superlative, Uluru is more than simply a monolith. Uluru is an inselberg, a geological term that literally means an island mountain. Seeing the huge rock rise up from the flat surrounding land, the term makes perfect sense. But how did it get there? The location where Uluru stands was an area where sand was deposited during the rapid erosion of surrounding mountains around million years ago. Because the mountain ranges formed quickly and there was no plant life to slow erosion, materials were deposited quickly.
Then, the transformation began. ABC Science explains:. After millions of years, Uluru is what's left from the constant erosion of the surrounding land and the rock itself.
Because the rock that forms Uluru is so hard, it's more resistant to erosion than everything around it. Millions of years of polishing from wind and rain hav shaped Uluru into the iconic structure it is now.
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