For decades, hundreds of thousands of visitors to Australia's desert centre have trekked up Uluru, the ancient red monolith formerly known as Ayers Rock. But from Saturday, the climb will be banned.

The board of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park voted unanimously to end the climb because of indigenous sensitivities. The giant red monolith in the Northern Territory is a sacred site for ...

Uluru, or Ayers Rock, is a massive sandstone monolith in the heart of the Northern Territory’s arid "Red Centre". Uluru is sacred to indigenous Australians and is thought to have started forming ...

At the center of Uluru–Kata Tjuta National Park is the physical and cultural heart of Australia, a red sandstone monolith called Uluru (or Ayers Rock, its colonial name) that towers over the ...

Even Uluru (to use the original, now official, Aboriginal name for Ayers Rock), that hypnotic monolith in the center of the country, was unknown to outsiders until only a little over a century ago.

Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, is a massive sandstone monolith that rises from the desert, and Kata Tjuta, also known as ...

There can be monsoons in the wet season as there is heavy rainfall. Uluru in Australia is a sandstone rock called a monolith. It is the largest monolith in the world and taller than the Eiffel Tower.