Mount Conner
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Mount Conner (also known as Attila and Artilla, and occasionally found as Mount Connor), reaching to 859 m (2,818 ft)[1] above sea level and to 300 m (984 ft) above ground level, is located southeast of Lake Amadeus in the southwest corner of the Northern Territory, 88 km (55 mi) east-southeast of Uluru at the border of the vast Curtin Springs cattle station.
Mount Conner is a flat-topped and horseshoe-shaped inselberg, part of the same vast rocky substrate as Uluru and Kata Tjuta. It 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] References
- ^ Mount Conner. Gazetteer of Australia online. Geoscience Australia, Australian Government.
- ^ "Conner, Mount". (2007). Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved on 2007-04-03.
- Mount Conner is at coordinates Coordinates:
