What is Uluru in Australia also known as?

Answer 1

Ulruru is also known as Ayers Rock. Ayers Rock is a large sandstone rock. It is located in central Australia, It is believed the rock is over 600 million years old and was once located at the bottom of the sea.

Answer 2

For over one hundred years, the feature now known by its indigenous name of 'Uluru' was known by its European name of Ayers Rock. Explorer William Gosse, the first European to see it, named it after the Premier of South Austalia, Sir Henry Ayers.

Answer 3

Uluru is the Yankunytjatjara name for the large monolith in the centre of Australia. It is a place of spiritual significance to the indigenous people of Australia. Although thought to variously mean "Big Pebble", "Island mountain" or "Earth Mother", the aboriginal elders deny that the name Uluru itself actually has any specific meaning.This landform features strongly in the stories of the Dreaming. Although not sacred in its entirety, tHere are numerous sacred sites around the Rock and at its base. These sites are sacred because, to the indigenous people, they are where Dreamtime beings travelled through that location or performed an action of some description.

Uluru is also not caught up with any "new age" nonsense. Its meaning to the aboriginal people is for them alone, and white man cannot understand just how significant it is, or how much it pains them to see white people climbing all over it disrespectfully.

Answer 4

Most sources quote the meaning of Uluru as Great Pebble;other sources translate the word as Meeting Place.

Answer 5

Uluru is the aboriginal name for what the European explorers named Ayers Rock.

Answer 6

Ayers Rock

Answer 7

ayers rock