Burringurrah - Mt Augustus Western Australia
S 24° 19.558 E 116° 50.853
50J E 484533 N 7309675
This summit register is on Mt Augustus WAustralia. The local ranger took sometime transporting the table up piece by piece along the 12 klm trail in temperatures which hover around 40C in the shade!!
Waymark Code: WM57
Location: Western Australia, Australia
Date Posted: 08/17/2005
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The summit register is contained in a very large aluminium box. Most of the time the box also contains goodies left by other intrepid climbers.
Mt Augustus (or Burringurrah), about 480 km east of Carnarvon, is the largest monocline or ‘monadnock’ in the world. It is more than twice as big as Uluru (Ayers Rock), standing 858 m above the surrounding plain. The central ridge is almost 8 km long. It has been estimated that the rock of the mountain itself is some 1,000 million years old; the granite which lies beneath it may be 1,650 million years old. Climbing Mt Augustus takes at least six hours. The rock changes colour constantly, from bright red through shades of green to blue and then to orange and gold at sunset.
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