Gosse Sights Uluru and Names It Ayers Rock
- When
- 19 July 1873
- Where
- Central Australia
William Gosse sighted Uluru on 19 July 1873 and named it Ayers Rock in honour of Sir Henry Ayers, Chief Secretary of South Australia.
During his 1873 expedition to Central Australia, Gosse reached an inselberg on 19 July 1873 and named it Ayers Rock in honour of Sir Henry Ayers, the then Chief Secretary of South Australia. In a separate context, Uluru and Kata Tjuta had been first mapped by Europeans in 1872 during the broader expeditionary period enabled by the Overland Telegraph Line; the supplied passages do not present Gosse's 1873 sighting as a direct sequel to that mapping effort.
Sources
- Uluru Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-14
- William Gosse (explorer) Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-10
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