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 * Ayers Rock Sighted**

Ayers Rock is also known by its aboriginal name '[|Uluru]' is one of Australia's reconisable natural icons. Ayers Rock was first sighted in 1873 by european settlers called Ernest Giles and William Gosse. It was named Ayers Rock after Sir Henry Ayers in 1873. Ayers Rock is a giant magnetic mound large unlike Silbury Hill in England. Ayers Rock is located in the Northern Teritory 350 km south of Alice Spings.It is the second-largest monolith in the world (after Mount Augustus, also in Australia). It is around 318m high and approximately 8 km around. It also goes about 2000m under the ground. Uluru has an area of over 311 000 acres. In 1994 it was the second National Park in the world to be given the **World Heritage** status.



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