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)
Local attraction Local attraction While compass surveying, the magnetic needle is sometimes disturbed from its normal position under the influence of external attractive forces. Such a disturbing influence is called as local attraction. The external forces are produced by sources of local attraction which may be current carrying wire (magnetic materials) or metal objects. The term is also used to denote amount of deviation of the needle from its normal position. It mostly causes errors in observations while surveying and thus suitable methods are employed to neglect these errors. The sources of local attraction may be natural or artificial. Natural sources include