Mount Conner
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Mount Connor (also known as Attila or Artilla), reaching to 859 m[1] (2,500 ft) above sea level and to 300 m (985 ft) above ground level, is located southeast of Lake Amadeus in the southwest corner of the Northern Territory, 88 km east-south-east of Uluru at the border of the vast Curtin Springs cattle station.
Mount Conner is a flat-topped and horseshoe-shaped mountain and can easily be confused with Uluru, since it can be seen from the road to Uluru and Kata Tjuta, when approaching from Alice Springs. It was named Mount Conner by William Gosse in 1873 after M. L. Conner, a South Australian politician[2] who assisted many of the early settlers in Australia.
[edit] Trivia
The formation is also confused with the Mashed Potato sculpture from the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind - that is in fact the Devils Tower in Wyoming.
[edit] References
- ^ Mount Connor. Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
- ^ Mount Conner. Encyclopaedia Britannica Premium Service. Encyclopaedia Britannica (2006). Retrieved on 2006-04-12.
