Kata Tjuta (Mount Olga), Central Australia, 1999. Kata Tjuta is an array of dozens of rounded sandstone conglomerate rock outcrops in an area of about 8 square miles. The tallest (Mount Olga) is 1800 feet, or 660 feet higher than Uluru, which is about 20 miles to its east. Kata Tjuta and Uluru are both outcrops of the same buried sedimentary formation.
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