Uluru and Kata Tjuta are first mapped…

1872 CE

Uluru and Kata Tjuta are first mapped by Europeans in 1872 during the expeditionary period made possible by the construction of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line.

In separate expeditions, Ernest Giles and William Gosse are the first European explorers to this area.

While exploring the area in 1872, Giles sights Kata Tjuta from a location near Kings Canyon and calls it Mount Olga, while the following year Gosse observes Uluru and names it Ayers Rock, in honor of the Chief Secretary of South Australia, Sir Henry Ayers.

These barren desert lands of Central Australia disappoint the Europeans as unpromising for pastoral expansion, but will later come to be appreciated as emblematic of Australia.

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