An enormous red rock in the northern territory of Australia that is an important spiritual site for the Aboriginal people.Select one:Labarge Rockhighlight_offCappadociahighlight_offUluruhighlight_offWave Rockhighlight_off

The following types of rock art can be found in Australia:Question 14Answera.Pictographsb.Petroglyphsc.Stencilsd.Printse.Beeswaxf.All of the above

A large mountain range in eastern AustraliaSelect one:Great Barrier Reefhighlight_offAltai Mountainshighlight_offThe Outbackhighlight_offGreat Dividing Rangehighlight_off

Rising starkly from the savage red flatlands at the dead centre of the Australian Outback is one of the most spectacular natural wonders of the world. Ayers Rock is the world’s largest single stone. From the air, it resembles an enormous kite; from the ground, it is just plain overwhelming! Rising vertically to a height of 348 metres, it is 1.6 km wide, 2.4 km long, and measures 9 km around its base!Despite its extreme remoteness, Ayers Rock rivals the famous Great Barrier Reef in its power to attract visitors—nearly 90,000 a year! The jumping-off place is Alice Springs, familiar to readers of Nevil Shute’s novel A Town Called Alice.Alice Springs is a tourist haven itself; visitors can enjoy Noel Fullerton’s Emily Gap Camel Ranch, experience a corroboree (a celebration of singing and dancing staged by the Aborigines), or watch the “Henley-on-Todd Regatta”, a yacht race held each August on a dry riverbed; the participants stand in fully-rigged boats, the bottoms of which have been removed, hoist the boats to their waists and stagger off towards the finish line!Visitors travel the 470 km from Alice Springs to Ayers Rock either by plane or road; those going the land route may spot such local wildlife as kangaroos, wild horses, camels and buffalo. Upon arrival at the rock, many pilgrims stop at “Sunset Strip”, an area of raised desert two km from the rock, an ideal spot from which to view it. Ayers Rock bears careful watching, as in addition to its size, it has another remarkable feature—it appears to change colour as the day wears on. Although its true hue is the harsh red of its limestone, this varies from moment to moment; at sunset it goes from a burnt red to brilliant orange to crimson, and then wanders through delicate shades of purple and blue.To the local Pitjantjatjara tribe of Aborigines, Ayers Rock is sacred, having the significance of an ancient temple. Many of its caves are the sites of religious ceremonies, including those marking the rites of passage of children into adulthood…. The Aborigines decorated many of the caves with mysterious paintings depicting plant and animal life, humans, and various abstract symbols.The Aborigines believe that Ayers Rock was produced during the Dreamtime, before men walked the earth; giants, who had slept through the time before time began, awoke and broke through the earth’s crust. They set about the creation of the world; it took ten of them to produce Ayers Rock, which to the Aborigines is known as “Uluru”, the Place of Shade. Details were added later; Uluru Water, a deep water-hole on top, was formed from the blood of a man who died in battle, while a slab of black rock is the body of another who was burned to death as punishment for not sharing his emu meat with the tribe.The first white man to see Ayers Rock was Ernest Giles; he spotted it from Lake Amadeus, thirty km north. The year was 1872, and by the time he got back for a visit a year later, William Gosse, a government surveyor, had led his Western Exploring Expedition to the base of the rock. Gosse was mightily impressed, and wrote, “When I was only two miles, distant and the hill, for the first time coming fairly into view, what was my astonishment to find it an immense pebble, rising abruptly from the plain. This rock is certainly the most wonderful natural feature I have ever seen; it appears more wonderful every time I look at it, and I may say it is a sight worth riding over 85 miles of spinifex sandhills to see.” Gosse named the rock after Sir Henry Ayers, premier of South Australia, and then he climbed to the top. This has become a tradition followed by most tourists, although many go in groups under a tour guide. The Bush Tucker Tour is popular; conducted by Aborigines, it includes a delicious meal of witchety grubs and billy tea with mint-flavoured gum leaves.Although Ayers Rock has been sacred to the Pitjantjatjara for 15,000 years, this represents but a wink of an eye in its geological life span. Ayers Rock is between five and six million years old, and was once buried beneath an inland sea. When the water receded, the rock remained, an enormous protuberance above a surrounding moonscape. … The rock is scarred with weather-induced gullies and lightning-scarred ridges. The overflow from infrequent rains ruins the usual silence of the desert with the sound of cataracts three hundred metres high.Ayers Rock is part of Uluru National Park, which also contains an impressive collection of mountains located thirty kilometres due west. Collectively dubbed “The Olgas”, the most impressive of these dome-shaped formations is Mount Olga itself, its red tower stretching to a height of 550 metres…The next time you happen to be visiting the Red Centre of the continent of Australia, stop by Ayers Rock and Mount Olga for a quick look. You won’t regret it!Ayers Rock was named afteraan Australian politician ban aboriginal traditioncthe person who discovered it dthe area in which it is located

Where in Australia is the famous site of Toolondo?Question 4Answera.SW Victoriab.Mt Isac.SW Tasmaniad.Whitsunday IslandsClear my choice

Which list of sites is considered to be among Australia’s oldest?Question 18Answera.Madjedbebe, Devil’s Lair, Puntutjarpa, Kosipeb.Purritjara, Devil’s Lair, Brooyar, Nauwalabila, Riwic.Nauwalabila, Madjedbebe, Devil’s Lair, Kosiped.Carpenter’s Gap, Riwi, Rocky Cape, KosipeClear my choice