Ernest Giles | Australian explorer | Britannica (original) (raw)

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Great Victoria Desert

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  In Great Victoria Desert
  …party led by the explorer Ernest Giles, who named it the Great Victoria Desert. It is crossed by the Laverton–Warburton Mission Track, which links the mission station in the Warburton Range, in Western Australia, with Laverton, 350 miles (560 km) southwest. It is also tracked for the recovery of missiles…
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Olgas

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  In Olgas
  …of Württemberg by the explorer Ernest Giles. Their Aboriginal name, Kata Tjuta, means “many heads.” The rocks offer visitors a constantly changing array of colour as the sun moves overhead and illuminates the luxurious vegetation in deep clefts between the domes.
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Uluru/Ayers Rock

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  In Uluru/Ayers Rock
  …sighted in 1872 by explorer Ernest Giles and was first visited by a European the following year, when surveyor William Gosse named it for Sir Henry Ayers, a former South Australian premier. It is the world’s largest monolith. (Mount Augustus [Burringurrah] in Western Australia is often identified as the world’s…
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