Rising as high as 1,100 feet, from above it looks like a long, blunt-headed whale.  
Rising as high as 1,100 feet, from above it looks like a long, blunt-headed whale.  It is two miles long and nearly eight miles in circumference.  In 1873, William Christie Gosse became the first Westerner to sight it, but it was long known to the indigenous peoples, as evidenced by caves and rock shelters decorated with spectacular paintings that dot its base.  Returned to the Aborigines in 1985, for 10 points, what is this awesome prominence of red sandstone in the south-western corner of Australia's Northern Territory?
Rising as high as 1,100 feet, from above it looks like a long, blunt-headed whale.  
Ayers Rock