Ayers Rock is one of the great tourist attractions of Australia. Three kilometres long and 348 metres high, it stands right in the middle of the continent, surrounded by flat desert, like a stranded whale. You can see Ayers Rock from nearly 100 kilometres away. It glows red by day, though the best time to see it is at sunrise or sunset. That is when the colour of the rock changes through a fantastic mixture of pinks and reds.
Ayers Rock is sacred to the Aborigines. They associate it with their Dreamtime the time when the earth and everything on it was created. Geologists believe that the middle of Australia was covered by an ocean 500 million years ago. They think that Ayers Rock is what is left of that old ocean floor. Most of it is probably hidden below the surface. After the ocean had disappeared, the land around Ayers Rock gradually turned to the desert that exists today, leaving the massive rock standing alone in its splendour.
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