Uluru is . Temperature extremes in the park have been recorded at during the summer and during winter. UV levels are extreme between October and March, averaging between 11 and 15 on the UV index. Local Aboriginal people recognise five seasons: According to the Aṉangu, traditional landowners of Uluru: There are a number of differing accounts given, by outsiders, of Aboriginal ancestral stories for the origins of Uluru and its many cracks and fissures. One such account, taken from Robert Layton's (1989) "Uluru: An Aboriginal history of Ayers Rock", reads as follows: Two other accounts are given in Norbert Brockman's (1997)
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